>It's closer to a tabloid than a newspaper

Except it's owned by one of the larger media companies out there and has ties to most of them through their connections to the associated press.

They're closer to actual publishers than twitter or Facebook are to be honest.

It definitely has it's issues but it's not on the level of facebook or twitter just yet. I can kind of see them circling their wagons to protect a staff member given past reddit overreactions that end up with the staff member getting doxed and death threats all over the internet. Mostly because of the pile on mentality of a lot of redditors.