Newspaper Division Senior Vice President Phil Currie could have been talking about unmoderated comments and other such reader-generated content when he wrote today about political punditry run amok in the just-out issue of News Watch:"If the responsible operations can't change the current process -- and it is doubtful that all of this is going away -- then they must work hard to help the public see the difference between shouting matches and sound journalism, and underscore that the second version -- while perhaps not quite as visually or viscerally entertaining -- in the long run is far more informative and important to us all."
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[Image: this morning's Detroit Free Press. Two days after the Michigan presidential primary, the paper says: "Even though seven out of 10 African Americans did not vote for Sen. Hillary Clinton in Michigan's Democratic presidential primary, analysts and black voters don't see it as a sign of irreversible trouble for Clinton if she becomes the party's nominee."]
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