I'd rather news organizations focus on their core competencies. When you allow comments, you're now in the business of spam filtering and social media moderation - neither of which are easy. Better to allow discussion boards to host discussions and news organizations and blogs to host articles.

> I want to read people's comments on any news stories whether the website likes them or not

Takes all kinds in this world, I guess.

lol you’re… you are commenting here? You could have joined everybody else in commenting on the article but you chose not to?

You seem to care very passionately about getting free stuff.

Why remove the link here where people can comment?

We can comment about it here?

Me too. How else am I to know how I'm supposed to react to the news?