How about some REALITY ?
You have an obligation to deliver the consumer news, not join the many Fake news outlets that love to take things out of context, or lie to the public, or use the dirty little tricks of the trade and go by some outdated reference or bad science. That being said, the COMMENTS section although littered with trolls sometimes is a good hashing out process to update those basing their opinions on bad or old data. It corrects the record for those whom like to leave out information to influence others and let people know of things that they didn't know about. You WILL be losing a lot of general people's support if you stay the course by removing the "comments" section. The presidential race for one since the left wing need their lack of values, lack of information and lack of integrity tested.