Meanwhile, the first two comments I posted on the Hollywood Reporter page 
from my iPad were immediately accepted, but the last two from my computer 
are still "pending." Go figure.

On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 10:49:44 AM UTC-4, Steve Timko wrote:
>
> It doesn't look at the Canadian TV guide is specifically tied to Facebook, 
> but if you post a comment via Facebook, it gets pulled into your Facebook 
> timeline for others to see. So I saw Donz's comments on the NY Post site on 
> this topic he made via Facebook.
>
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Joe Hass <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> This isn't a journalism problem. Rather, it's a website engagement
>> problem, where websites try to get people to leave opinions, come back
>> to complain about everyone else's opinions, et cetera, all in the hope
>> of increasing the page views of the article.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Kevin M. 
>> <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
>> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Tom Wolper 
>> > <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> And we got this from TV Guide Canada at the end of the article:
>> >>
>> >> "Do you think Shaffer should leave ‘Late Night’? Sound off below."
>> >
>> > Someone needs to write about that disturbing trend in online
>> > journalism, where a story can't just have an ending. Oh no, readers
>> > must be prompted with an asinine question as opposed to commenting on
>> > the article itself. It turns what could be journalism into the old SRA
>> > Reading Laboratory.
>>
>

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