Notable comment

From the Times story on the baptism of a mulsim in Rome.

So an intellectual weakling has changed his favourite brand of superstition for a different one & an old man in a silly hat has poured water over him. Yawn.
Roger Angove, Truro,

I’ll let you in to a little secret - I prefer to read comments and the responses to comments on news articles than the articles themselves most of the time.

The reason is that, most of them time the article is just a piece of churnalism, a re-write of a PA copy thrown out to get the story up - so the comments give you an insight into what the readers of that newspaper or website think on certain issues.

Alright so the best comments tend to gather around the analysis pieces written by columnists, editors or correspondents but sometimes you get good stuff on all of them.

This particular comment seems to be on a piece by a Times Correspondent in Rome but I could be wrong.

Anyway - whether the comment comes in the form of a blog post, underneath a news article or posted to a site like Digg or Newsvine often the comments really give you an added depth to a piece.

One of my favourite blogs is Speak your branes - a site that takes comments from various news stories and responds to them, often in very funny ways.

So with this regular feature I’m going to do a similar thing - except I probably won’t respond in much detail - more repost and analyse the comment if it needs it or just repost and agree.

In this case I just found the comment funny and the sort of comment I’d probably make myself I could have been bothered.

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