Post Shutters Blog After Readers Trash Comments
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The politics of denial are indeed strong politics to confront. In this case, folks are made to confront the truth about the fact that Jack Abramoff had directed substantial campaign contributions to both major parties -- and that truth doesn't fit well within with a particular group's talking points.
I will never understand why the hallmark of liberal tolerance is strangled by many a liberal individual's intolerance.
NEWSLINE
"We're not giving up on the concept of having a healthy public dialogue with our readers, but this experience shows that we need to think more carefully about how we do it," Brady wrote on the newspaper's Web site. "There are things that we said we would not allow, including personal attacks, the use of profanity and hate speech."
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Paper Shutters Blog After Ombudsman Post
(AP) -- The Washington Post shut down one of its blogs Thursday after the newspaper's ombudsman raised the ire of readers by writing that lobbyist Jack Abramoff gave money to the Democrats as well as to Republicans. Read full story.
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'Wash Post' Web Editor Explains Decision to Shut Off Blog Comments
(E&P) -- NEW YORK Jim Brady, executive editor of The Washington Post’s Web site, who took down a popular reader blog Thursday after it overflowed with profane and hateful messages about Ombudsman Deborah Howell, said the blog would likely return in the future. But, he said the Web site would have to find some better screening technology to filter out obscenities.
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COMMENTLINE
The politics of denial are indeed strong politics to confront. In this case, folks are made to confront the truth about the fact that Jack Abramoff had directed substantial campaign contributions to both major parties -- and that truth doesn't fit well within with a particular group's talking points.
I will never understand why the hallmark of liberal tolerance is strangled by many a liberal individual's intolerance.
NEWSLINE
"We're not giving up on the concept of having a healthy public dialogue with our readers, but this experience shows that we need to think more carefully about how we do it," Brady wrote on the newspaper's Web site. "There are things that we said we would not allow, including personal attacks, the use of profanity and hate speech."
NEWSBYTE
Paper Shutters Blog After Ombudsman Post
(AP) -- The Washington Post shut down one of its blogs Thursday after the newspaper's ombudsman raised the ire of readers by writing that lobbyist Jack Abramoff gave money to the Democrats as well as to Republicans. Read full story.
RELATED
'Wash Post' Web Editor Explains Decision to Shut Off Blog Comments
(E&P) -- NEW YORK Jim Brady, executive editor of The Washington Post’s Web site, who took down a popular reader blog Thursday after it overflowed with profane and hateful messages about Ombudsman Deborah Howell, said the blog would likely return in the future. But, he said the Web site would have to find some better screening technology to filter out obscenities.
Tags: journalism, mainstream media, press, newspapers, Computers and Internet, Blogs, Blogging
Global Tags: Washington DC, News and politics, News, Politics, Current Events, Current Affairs, Life
posted by Steven Moyer at 11:02 PM
1 Comments:
Well, Deborah THINKS she got rid of the comments but she didn't. Click below and find out where most of them went.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2006/01/deborah-howell-failed-to-get-rid-of.html
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