By Foster Kamer 8/16/12 4:35pm

BETTER KNOW A COMMENTS SECTION

DRUDGE REPORT

Some People Still Dislike The New York Times

Yesterday, we wrote an innocent item about lightning striking The New York Times building the day after the company’s new CEO was announced. It was our own fun little way of checking in on the narrative of the Times‘s new leadership, just a little honey to make the media news medicine of recent bureaucratic shifts at the Times go down easier (not that the drama at the top of the Times really even needs that).

Somehow, it ended up on the Drudge Report. As is wont to happen whenever one gets ordained with a link from Matt Drudge, an influx of viewers came shooting our way. As did, of course, some new commenters.  Read More

By Matt Coyne 3/30/11 5:33pm

The Daily

The Daily's Audio Comments: March 30's Greatest Hits

For you poor souls who go iPad-less, The Daily, Rupert Murdoch’s much ballyhooed iPad newspaper, has audio comments. The results are just about as awesome as you would expect.

Because, we, at The Observer, are committed to giving the technology-deprived among you a little taste of what you’re missing out on, we’ve compiled a short Read More

By Josh Benson 8:19am

New Comments Policy

As part of the launch of the new Observer website, there’s going to be a slight change in comments policy here.

Bad news first: readers will be required to go through a one-time registration before they can comment. The registration requires a username — which can be anything — and an email address, which is Read More