Reader's comments devalue journalism

Interaction and two way communication are held up as one of the reasons why publishing online is a good thing for journalism.

Not though according to Douglas Bailey, president and founder of DB Media Strategies Inc who argues that

[A]s satiated as I am with the enormous and varied flow of available information, I’ve concluded there’s one outlet that should be abandoned: those comment forums at the end of articles on newspaper websites.
…these forums are insidiously contributing to the devaluation of journalism, blurring the truth, confusing the issues, and diminishing serious discourse beyond even talk radio’s worst examples.

Via CJR