I totally understand not wanting to stretch yourself out, but if you are mirroring the news, then why disable the comments?
And hosting it on LiveJournal - while there are a good many fans on livejournal, there are many that have problems with it... Additionally LiveJournal isn't really a site that has respect in general...
It just strikes me that if they were going to centralise it - wouldn't it be better off being central on their own website, own turf, own terms? They can still mirror things elsewhere to invite users to respond, but it makes it less dependant on another company....
