I think The New York Times has done a wonderful job adapting to new interactive media, and a great example of this is Amy Harmon's piece on Justin Canha that we just read. In this digital platform, there is infinite space for images, space that doesn't exist on the printed page. And what's also nice about the platform is that the images don't have to crowd the webpage; rather, there are separate links to them.
Another feature I like about The New York Times website is the boxes for the most e-mailed and most viewed articles. There is some sense of interactivity here because it lets me see what other people are interested in, what they're reading and possibly sharing with other people.
The only thing I don't like, and this goes for just about every news site out there today, is the comments section. I almost never read them, even though the ones on the Times are probably more intelligible than comments on other sites. I think it's supposed to be interactive, but it very rarely seems that way to me. It seems reactionary and self-indulgent. More people are driven by the desire to just say something, not to engage with other readers.
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