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JohnnyRingo

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14. This is a trend with newspaper websites.

Reply to HughBeaumont (Original post)

Tue Dec 1, 2015, 09:47 AM

Dec 2015

My local Daily Blab had to do the same with it's website because of the hate mongers who showed up every day looking for news stories they saw as begging their input. I'm hardly naive, but some of the comments left me with mouth agape in shock that those were my community neighbors, or indeed people who walked the same streets with decent people.

First they tried ending anonymous entries, but even that failed to end the vileness of comments.

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Plain Dealer: Why we turned off comments on Tamir Rice news stories [View all] HughBeaumont Dec 2015 OP

The terrorists have won. marble falls Dec 2015 #1

Great post, HughBeaumont. BeanMusical Dec 2015 #2

Not just the Tamir Rice shooting. Fuddnik Dec 2015 #3

The fascist part is what scares me the most. HughBeaumont Dec 2015 #8

K&R. Ever notice how much time and effort right-wingers put into declaring bullwinkle428 Dec 2015 #4

While showing exactly the opposite. Ed Suspicious Dec 2015 #5

OH yes. HughBeaumont Dec 2015 #7

It's like when someone says, "No offense, but . . ." and then says something really offensive. tclambert Dec 2015 #9

Yeah, that great American Cliven Bundy. PatrickforO Dec 2015 #12

Often followed by "Those People are the real racists" nxylas Dec 2015 #11

Logically challenged, these people remain . . . . HughBeaumont Dec 2015 #18

actually, no, but that's because I can read their code! XD MisterP Dec 2015 #19

IOW, it was like DU during a Presidential campaign. randome Dec 2015 #6

Racists don't hide it any more and feel safe on the internet yuiyoshida Dec 2015 #10

Exactly. It's not just Tamir Rice stories. It's most stories about minorities Number23 Dec 2015 #20

good for the plains dealer allan01 Dec 2015 #13

This is a trend with newspaper websites. JohnnyRingo Dec 2015 #14

I like the fact that they used the word "wickedness"... First Speaker Dec 2015 #15

Dehumanizing a child d_legendary1 Dec 2015 #16

They don't care. HughBeaumont Dec 2015 #17

DAMN THE RACISTS rbrnmw Dec 2015 #21