Presumably, the number of online readers and responders is a much less dominant consideration than who those readers are.
But, as Botox and other procedures became more socially acceptable, readers became more forgiving and less curious about celebrities going under the knife, said Ms. Lee, who is leaving In Touch for celebrity website Hollywood.com.
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The site was smaller and our readers were less numerous, which meant we actually got to read every single comment and email people left us (and in those days they were far more often than not pretty insightful, believe it or not).
Yes, it is a great advantage to be able to correct things quickly, but isn't it a greater advantage to not make the mistake in the first place, rather than have it ricochet around the Internet, and have readers think less of your publication?
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Two, there's a subtle marketing push that's aiming this less at general computing users and more at readers.
They were older and less attractive to advertisers than younger, more digitally savvy readers.
Such readers are expensive to reach and less alluring to advertisers.
At the same time, disabling cutting and pasting may prevent some less tech-savvy (or lazy) readers from quoting him in their own blog posts, posting links to his content on Twitter, and so forth.
And he has even less reason to care if the new pawall scares away some Post readers.
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They relate to and engage with the audience unlike a past generation of reporters who could care less what readers thought (after all, what do they know?).
With the fading of science sections from newspapers, where is the science for the science consumer, the readers into health, medicine, chemistry, tech, environment, physics, and the less well-defined category of Really Cool Scientific Shit?
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