CBC closing vile Facebook commentary a late but welcome move
The CBC’s decision to close comments for a month on news stories posted on its Facebook page is very much locking a stable door several years after the horses have left the vicinity, but still welcome.
Brodie Fenlon, CBC News editor-in-chief and executive director for daily news, has had the top job for just over a year. He’s proof that new editors bring new energy and can make tough decisions that reflect the world as it is, not as we wish it to be.
As it is, many of the public comments on CBC reporting have been fact-free, paranoid, obsessive and vicious. It is expensive to moderate these feeds, exhausting and upsetting for reporters to endure them year over year.
God forbid “journalists” should have to deal with the great unwashed!
