Brian Farnham, the guy in charge of AOL's Patch network, is leaving because Patch is not enough of a start-up for him, he said in an unnervingly positive farewell blog post Wednesday.
Patch's request to its hundreds of local editors not to comment on Jim Romenesko's reporting on Patch is just the latest example of a big media company trying, and failing, to control its people's participation in Internet conversation.
Everybody knows that local papers are suffering. But what can we do about it?
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