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 <hassgoc...@gmail.com> 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. <drunkbastar...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Tom Wolper <twol...@gmail.com> 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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