I'll admit that the Chicago Tribune apparently has quit showing stories to readers for reaction before they are published, but the kind of decision-making that would allow it to happen in the first place is yet another of the highly-questionable decisions inflicted on what was once a very good newspaper. Tribune editor Gerould Kern said the newspaper had discontinued "a brief market research project that tested reader reaction to working story ideas that have not yet been published." Sounds like turning editing over to the readers, which some non-journalists are clamoring for, but which would spell the end of credibility for any form of publication, letting it descend to that of blogs. (And, yes, I realize this is a blog.)
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