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is, as anyone who has done this, in order to have a productive and worthwhile commenting community or rent -- really any kind of comedy community, to remind people not to just fall back onhorrible -- the problem is i think anyone who has done this long enough is in order to have a productive and worthwhile commenting community for online form
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community, yet that moderators to weed out trolls but also not to fall back on in-jokey mean-girl things which is something gawker has struggled with, both writing and in the comments. [laughter] there is nothing worse than having a writer write something extremely brave or intelligent that they put a huge amount of effort into and the first thing is tl;dr and i looked you up on the internet and you are really ugly. [laughter] women writers are subject to misogynistic, terrible comments. now that i have rambled for too long, to answer your question, if you have a comment moderator, great. it can only strengthen a website. i think it can only make a publication better. there is a high chance you would just be publishing with actual racism on your platform. >> are there other ways -- do you want to add anything? >> for news, we have removed that we call our native comments. anyone who makes those easily, there is no reason for anyone to comment like that. i made it difficult to comment
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on news stories. for things like lists and quizzes or lifestyle things, comments are useful in that people can say i tried this and it worked for me or people will be like there are funny people who tell funny jokes and go along with the vibe of the host. we like our community moderators to spend time moderating those places rather than terrorism and racial strife. there is less by you -- l you have comments oness value -- less value to have comments on that. journalism is constantly evolving. my friend says every agent invents its own journalism. "the new york times" was invented in response to yellow journalism. it was a reaction.
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what we think of as journalism is a permanent thing has never been the case. when i got into the business a very long time ago, we were trying to essentially put our footsteps into the prints of our elders. and almost ciceronian way of doing it. you're inventing a new journalism. that can always be messy. it is also a very dynamic edge. if you are young and thinking about this, you're going to invent the next journalism and that is pretty cool. at it's very exciting. one thing i would add, the disruption in media, the most profound disruption is financial. it is not that the audience has gone away. the audience is bigger and more constant and it has ever been. this is a search for revenue as much as anything else. >> we want to thank our fantastic panel for being here. [applause] thank you so much for joining us. >> are you doing?
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>> good. >> monday night on the communicators, we met up with tim moynahan to get a tour of the latest in tv technology. >> what does oled stand for? tim: organic light emitting diode. it refers to the backlight system. we use led backlight to color liquid crystal display and this one is using the individual oled particles as a source of light. they can turn on and off independently. with an led set you will always see some sort of life seeping -- light seeping through. to my eyes this is 4k and oled which is the buzzwords at the show. as the holy grail of tv.
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[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] >> this week, tomorrow night represented steve russell. test that his life in congress and his childhood experiences. >> i nearly died several times from birth, i almost died at that time. my mother had had a couple of miscarriages prior to me. i nearly died at birth. she always told me i was her little fighter. it does something to a child that you will not
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