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Washington Post Shuts Down Blog
Billosaur writes "C|Net has an article by Katharine Q. Seelye of The New York Times, which indicates that the Washington Post is having to close one of its blogs, due to 'too many personal attacks, profanity and hate mail directed at the paper's ombudsman.' It seems that Deborah Howell, the newspaper's ombudsman, wrote an article on the Jack Abramoff scandal which elicited a storm of protest and led to readers using profanity and making unprintable comments, which the paper had to take extra care in removing. This was apparently more based on the issue at hand, as the Post's other blogs have not experienced similar problems." What kind of precedent does this set for other mainstream news sites? What we'd consider a normal day around here has to look fairly intimidating to the average newspaper editor. Will this dissuade news sites from blogging in the future?
They wouldn't last 2 minutes posting and editing at Slashot! GNAA, Goatse... They'd flip! :-)
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The maths involved are surprisingly straightforward.
Slashdot Burying Stories About Slashdot Media Owned
We can only hope.
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She was a real bright and witty lady, although she did have a really nasty habit of picking her nose and eating the booger at meetings. This really grossed people out. Still a very nice woman.
Obviously the initial ping in the Intel jingle doesn't count -- there are four notes, anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot, you're undoubtedly David Pogue posting under a fake name, and that moron Zonk just posted something that was on Digg over 20 minutes ago.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
The article quotes the executive editor of the paper's website:
I'm sorry, you must be new here. Reasoned debate?!?!
Profanity? Wow, that's fucking serious. Heh, sometimes the old jokes are the best. :)
GODDAMNED TROLLS.
Than all her facts are allowed to be Mapes-believe.