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News Director Shuts Down Comments
🕑 Added 2025-12-29 06:00:08 +0000 UTC
While most TV stations will do about anything to get viewers to engage with them on social media, one new News Directors is going a different direction.
At Paxton Media's WPSD in Paducah, newly named News Director Jeff Bidwell has seen enough negative comments on his station's Facebook page.
Bidwell has only been on the job for 3 weeks, but has decided to turn off comments on the station's page.
He posted a message about the move, which obviously had comments turned off.
Personally, the better approach would to have a person monitor the comment section and pull the toxic posts and keep the public engaged.
The issue here, WPSD is in a small market and I doubt they have the resources to have a person just monitoring comments.
The next best option is to hold all comments and post the ones that are on topic, while ignoring the others. This method does not require you to monitor all the comments posted, as you can approve them on your time.
Then again, with all the crap we see posted by so many in TV news, it might be best for management to approve all posts going out and maybe you won't have so many toxic posts coming in.
Just saying....
Comments
Al Smithee
Nah, I’m with him on this, and especially in a small market —Comment sections are the scourge of our society. Second, go look on their FB page - they’re posting *nothing* that seems to be clickbait to get reactions. PLEASE do some research before you jump to conclusions about a station’s actions, Scott.
