[untog]

I think it's dangerous to consider commenters "people without an agenda". Automatically generated comments aside, I'm quite sure that plenty of real human beings have "an agenda" when they're commenting on an article.

I'm also not really sure what agenda the "modern, salaried digital author" is supposed to be succumbing to. Clickbait? If they're salaried then they aren't paid per click. Again, the journalist is a known employee of a known organisation. To think of anonymous commenters as more reliable feels a little baffling to me.

[moneytide1]

I am judging a book by its cover twice by not reading either our parent article or "Only the Paranoid Survive" by Andy Grove.