It's good to talk... isn't it?

Following my post urging the National Union of Journalists to launch its own, open-access bulletin board to regain its foothold in journalistic debate, it seems the Press Gazette is to launch its own online discussion forum in association with AOL.

Given the current furore over at the Grauniad's 'blogs-for-all' Comment Is Free section, where some have been calling for more control over, among other things, the language used in comments, it will be interesting to see how the PG copes with attempting to moderate debate between its readers. Journalists are generally not noted for being nice to each other, and at at the same time are notoriously sensitive to criticism. Oh, and they hate being moderated.

Should be fun.