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Jun 16, 2008 0

Blogging, the Chicago Tribune, and how they got that story

There were 2,410 comments on the Tribune article “Immigration Debate Grows from Web roots” by Tony Olivo a week or two ago. That’s 121 pages of comments on the Trib web site!

The story documented confrontations between folks who defend immigrants’ human rights and immigrant haters and send-them-all-homers on the Internet. It was a great example of a trend story that exemplifies the trend it reports on. Read the rest of this entry »

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