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Ursus:
A very odd thing about the article in the OP, "Youth lock-ups blasted: Star investigation Hearings order release of children found not to have mental disorders," is that the Comments section is already closed. And, not only is it closed, but the 23 comments that were left for that article are not viewable. This article was published but three weeks ago today. Anyone else find this a bit odd?

wdtony:
Yeah, it's been that way for at least the last few days. I tried to bring it up under a cached search with no luck.

I heard a rumor (only a rumor) that Pro-program peeps got a lot of comments in before it was taken down.

I am unsure if this is normal policy for the Star, but it is odd.

Ursus:
According to this Press Display of the Front Page on July 7, 2010, that article was pretty prominently placed, i.e., immediately below the Toronto Star banner.

wdtony:

--- Quote from: "Ursus" ---According to this Press Display of the Front Page on July 7, 2010, that article was pretty prominently placed, i.e., immediately below the Toronto Star banner.
--- End quote ---

Awesome find.... front page! That would explain the comments being disabled and hidden. Powerful folks made some phone calls, I bet.

Do you think Lon Woodbury will (or did) chime in?

Ursus:
Lol. Doubt it re. Lon Woodbury... But, I also think I may have been too quick to judge re. reasons for the unavailability of the above article comments.

After rummaging around on both the Toronto Star and Press Display websites, I've come to the conclusion that the Toronto Star keeps articles up for public purvey but a very brief time, and then shortly archives them on Press Digest, where you have to pay to see them (unless they happen to be on the front page). This would appear to be the Press's answer to Google's newspaper archives, not to mention all the other pay-per-view news archives which have bought up select articles or entire archives of certain papers. I believe the Washington Post is another paper that uses Press Display.

I hope this is not a trend, 'cuz otherwise, gone are the days of lengthy internet availability of news articles. On the one hand, it's easy to see how these publishers need to make their money somehow. On the other hand, it limits the window on recent events that people have come to be accustomed to.

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