Monday, September 27, 2010

Short-sightedness at NWH

Why is the Northwest Herald so short-sighted in its decision to limit online comments to Letters to the Editor?

Its "new" policy, implemented a few months ago, is that you get 48 hours to respond; i.e., if you get any opportunity at all.

On Saturday, September 25, the Northwest Herald published a letter critical of Dorr Township elected officials. The letter was published on the paper's website at 7:48AM. This meant that a reader had until about 7:48AM today to comment. If you snooze, you lose.

As to "no" opportunity to comment, the Northwest Herald did not permit readers to comment on the article about the 55 (actually 57) tickets written by an Island Lake police officer last week. FIFTY-SEVEN tickets!

1 comment:

mark beeson said...

This is just one more reason the daily herald is a better paper!!!