Our Days Are Numbered - Round-Up Commences As Websites Lead Their Sheep Into Virtual FEMA Camps
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
Aug 18, 2016
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Another liberal website has decided to disable commenting on their site, ironically enough it is the "National 'Public' Radio," that has made the decision to remove the 'public' from their website discussions, leaving the site itself as nothing more than a echo chamber of their opinion, with no dissent allowed.

The note above the comment section states this will commence on August 23, 2016, but their reasoning in their announcement holds a number of concerning issues we would like to address, including the similarities of reasoning used by other liberal sites over the years, the outright mistruths to their readers and last but definitely not least, a pattern of behavior which indicates not only their desire of total control on information, but actively sending the "sheep" to organizations that are known for helping the government spy on citizens, monitoring even private conversations, and stifling conservative opinion.

TOTAL CONTROL OF INFORMATION AND OUTRIGHT LIES

Before going into the similarities of NPR decision with others over the years, lets first deal with the mistruths they told their readers. They claimed to have analyzed their comments in comparison to their actual traffic and found only a small percentage actually commented, then offered the following as one justification for disabling their comment section:

"The conclusion: NPR's commenting system — which gets more expensive the more comments that are posted, and in some months has cost NPR twice what was budgeted — is serving a very, very small slice of its overall audience."

NPR uses Disqus commenting (or they do until August 23), as does ANP, so we can tell you the service is free of charge to publishers. In fact they used to have Pro and premium accounts, but they phased those out in March 2013 and currently does not offer paid accounts and generates revenue through its advertising service, Reveal..

If a publisher is invited to the Reveal program, they actually earn advertising revenue from the comment sections, with ads above, below or both, so to state that the more comments that are made, the more they incur expenses, is an outright lie.

Using expenses as justification for disabling a comment section makes absolutely no sense either, since revenue generated by advertising whether it is pay-per-click or based on impressions, is dependent on readers returning to the site, so that too is misleading at best, a deliberate distraction technique at worst.