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Newsweek: In Which We are Reminded of How Much We Frickin’ Love the Web

Like, we suspect, many of you, we saw this story the other day:

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and thought “Huh. Good for her! Journalism’s loss will be some fortunate kid’s gain. Except! Turns out Ms. Gurbst perhaps wasn’t so nice. Since the story was published late Tuesday night, the comments have been amazing, and they…

Newsweek, you just pointed to ‘Comments’ on the internet as sides to an argument. Really? Journalism called, Your license has been suspended. Indefinitely  

See, we disagree. Because that Observer piece, clearly, did not, um, capture the story adequately; clearly, there was more there there. And before the Web, a paper might have run that exact same story, and maybe some people would have disputed that account to their friends, or even written a letter to the editor that would have been published and ignored a week later. This brings a new level of feedback and accountability to the system, which we think can only help journalism.