San Francisco Chronicle Caught Cooking the Paper

Leibowitz's Canticle ^ | November 24, 2007 | Leibowitz

[Bob Leibowitz]

JimJam, a blogger at Investigate the Media, has caught the San Francisco Chronicle selectively editing comments to its on-line version of the paper in an apparently deliberate effort to deceive its readers.

It works like this: Like most papers, the Chronicle solicits comments from its on-line readers. Comments that for whatever reason the editors don't like are deleted, a practice that nearly all on-line websites and newspapers follow from time to time. No problem so far. What makes the Chronicle different is that when the Chronicle makes a comment disappear it goes away for everyone except the writer, who continues to see his comment and who naturally thinks that everyone else can see it, too, and who then believes, however naively, that his opinion has registered with other readers.

[Bob Leibowitz]

It's an invisible ink strategy, or an eat your cake and have it too. Commenters are mollified, they've had their say. Other readers aren't troubled by comments the paper finds troubling… including those on its ethics.

San Francisco Chronicle Caught Cooking the Paper

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I wonder if Miss Morford is doing the wildcat editing.

[Doctor Raoul]

November 2005, the World Can't Wait front group march passed the Chronicle and they threw a molotov cocktail at the building.

Anybody want to fund WCW for another one?

It would be karma if the moonbats that the Chron misleads the public into thinking are normal people on a mission of peace put them all on the street.

[rockrr]

I’m surprised that this isn’t getting more attention here. Any of us who bother to post anywhere outside of FreeRepublic is potentially at risk of having their voices stifled without their even knowing it.

[Drago]

Hello? Can anyone see this post?? ;-)

[Bob Leibowitz]

Hello? Can anyone see this post?? ;-)

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