the kicker

"Don’t Make Me Pull over This Commenting Platform"

January 4, 2010

The Pantagraph, local paper of Bloomington and nearby central Illinois towns, has turned off the commenting feature on its site’s local stories for three days, because some readers have been naughty, and good parenting demands setting boundaries.

Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.