{"id":103885,"date":"2016-08-18T11:13:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T19:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=103885"},"modified":"2016-08-18T11:13:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T19:13:26","slug":"npr-deletes-comments-says-commenters-are-too-old-and-male","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=103885","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;NPR Deletes Comments, Says Commenters Are Too Old And Male&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/08\/17\/npr-deletes-comments-says-commenters-are-too-old-and-male\/\">Daily Caller<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Jensen indicated that diversity issue also played a role in the decision. NPR commenters don&#8217;t reflect the demographics of the site&#8217;s readers, since they appear more likely to be older men.<br \/>\n&#8220;They overwhelmingly comment via the desktop (younger users tend to find NPR.org via mobile), and a Google estimate suggested that the commenters were 83 percent male, while overall NPR.org users were just 52 percent male,&#8221; Jensen said, citing NPR Digital News Managing Editor Scott Montgomery.<\/p>\n<p>Henceforth, NPR will use social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for reader engagement, which will hopefully be more demographically diverse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Caller: But Jensen indicated that diversity issue also played a role in the decision. NPR commenters don&#8217;t reflect the demographics of the site&#8217;s readers, since they appear more likely to be older men. &#8220;They overwhelmingly comment via the desktop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=103885\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29649],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-npr-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103887,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103885\/revisions\/103887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}