Monday 3/ 29

I just wanted to point out that the NY times does a consistent job of providing a public forum for people, whether they are editorials, letters to the editor, or an entire opinion section on the newspaper's website. It is obvious that the paper is not only open to public forum but it encourages it. A paper could have a place where people can state their opinions on certain matters, but not really encourage people to do so, but the NY times shows that it wants people to share their opinions and they want to use outside sources that may have a better knowledge about a certain subject than what they can find out. Such forums are very helpful for a newspaper, and while one would attempt to stem that in order to prevent news that they do not want to publish, it is clear that the Times embraces this element.