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Posts on ‘February 16th, 2007’

Good Advice on Reader Comments

Rebecca Dube’s advice to readers who comment on the Toronto Globe & Mail includes:
1. Understand that an online discussion is not a free-for-all. Editors like me moderate online discussions for reasons of space, time and basic human decency.

This will be difficult for some folks, unfortunately.
(Disclosure: Dube’s husband, Jon, is a member of this center’s advisory [...]

Wall Street Banker to Newspapers: Abandon Hope?

Steven Rattner, in “Red All Over,” says:
We’ve had experience in the past — the New York City subways come to mind — with businesses that began as conventional, for-profit corporations, and, for one reason or another, were later rendered unprofitable while still being viewed as essential services. It’s time to apply some creative thinking to [...]