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dragonlady

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6. Yesterday I heard the editor of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on the radio

Reply to randys1 (Reply #3)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 03:01 PM

Feb 2016

He was speaking about the paper's new policy to let people add comments to online articles only if they are subscribers and thus can be identified if their writing is too filthy. (So far it has really cleaned up the comments.) He mentioned a study that the paper commissioned a few years ago. It said that 10% of their readers were extremely angry about all institutions (government, churches, the press, etc.). Just a data point in support of what you wrote.

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