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Write a letter and sign your name.

Nobody except Vice gets to see that, and since nobody sees them Vice won't feel pressured into correcting their article.

Oh so trolls are helpful correctors lol.

There's a difference between reasonable public discourse and incessant trolls spamming, which is what 95% of all vice comments was. Any type of actual argument or discussion were drowned out by a multitude of "ugh another trash article by shitty vice" which doesn't add anything to the discussion whatsoever.

Yes it does. Perhaps if they got enough of these they would stop publishing trash.

editorials in newspapers used to be a mode of public discourse.

Do you mean letters to the editor? If so, I agree that they do permit some public discourse. I'm sure papers also chose which letters to publish, in effect moderating the discussion.

> If we consider VICE a legitimate news outlet

Well, there's your problem.