Events should be more like live blogging with the speaker giving their opinion and the counter comments coming in think and fast.
Still, Gregory's departure surely counters comments made by NBC earlier this year about the Sunday show host's future.
At home, I am always sure to neutralize such comments with counter comments like "Lucy will talk/play when she feels comfortable.
There is comment and counter-comment, claim and counter-claim, argument and almost immediate refutation, often from multiple sides.
But just as interpersonal brutality is intrinsic to the social media, so is linguistic brutality intrinsic to the internet's community of comment and counter-comment.
In its counter-comment submissions to the TRAI, Medianama.com has said that Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance and Idea, India's top four telecom operators, have added 8.5 million users.
In its counter-comment submission to the telecoms regulator, the COAI has asked for zero-rating services to stay in the interest of "social welfare".
In worst case scenarios, the admin himself will counter-comment to silence the matters, and on his page, admin is the king.
"Do you think Alex Ferguson would have a bad medical staff?" the United manager said, reflecting on a controversy that prompted the Premier League champions to release an official statement countering the comments of their former player.
Mr. Taseer countered in comments on his Twitter account and elsewhere.
