Online Newspapers: Gaining Respectability

I have a friend who writes for an online newspaper and as part of the submitting process, her articles are reviewed by copy editors and sent back with comments to her for final revisions. However, the articles are submitted anonymously and so, any comments made by the editors are blindly directed towards any of the writing team. The names of the writers are revealed only when the articles are accepted for submission, a blind-fold step that's similar to writing contests to bar against selecting articles based on names. I feel that this is a step toward legitimizing online newspapers and gives them an added degree of respectability. Still despite this, it doesn't mean that I would suddenly trust online newspapers as I'm one of those degenerates who doesn't read the news, paper or online. For those who do rely for news online, this is probably comforting, to know that the people who run this particular newspaper are concerned enough to set up such a system. It gives me hope that future online publications will continue to create stringent standards in an effort to legitimize their articles.