Here I thought it was biased and incompetent reporting that damaged trust in the news media. Silly me!
Bite me WashCompost.
That was my reaction, exactly!
Somebody's been lurking in the Religion forum.
>> Anonymous comments, even positive ones, damage trust in the news media.
Hahahaha! Comments are comments, not news. If you want “the news media” to be trusted then don’t be so biased. What stooges.
I haven’t seen anonymous comment sections via internet browser access in a few years. (on most MSM web sites)
Most of them require a Disqus login.
Which is just another data mining tool that the gov’t can use against people.
” In 2010, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts argued that anonymous comments sections “have become havens for a level of crudity, bigotry, meanness, factual inaccuracy and plain nastiness that shocks the tattered remnants of our propriety.””
‘Can’t have people saying what they really think. If they are anonymous it is too hard to track them down and punish them for improper thoughts/speech.’ - The liberal thought police.
It can be safely said that Kevin Wallsten and Melinda Tarsi are mouth breathing, knuckle dragging morons using up precious air, and should have been aborted in the womb.
This “no anonymity” movement is motivated by two assumptions. First, when Internet users are allowed to post their thoughts anonymously, THEN FREE SPEECH IS ALLOWED. THE LEFT AND THE GOVERNMENT DOESN’T WANT ANY OF THAT!
The Left hates it that they live in a world where there are other points of views an opinions. they will kill hundreds of millions that dare to speak against them.
They need to have dissenters on a list for the future...for the glorious day when the rifle butts can knock on your door in the middle of the night because you have decided to disagree with the politburo.
“havens for a level of crudity, bigotry, meanness, factual inaccuracy and plain nastiness that shocks the tattered remnants of our propriety.”
Sounds like a description of the mainstream media....
Its not suprising that the msm wants to eliminate it, what w/ being a forum primarily for liberals who are demonstrably more rude and crude than conservatives.
FR is a haven for open & respectful intercourse and the simple policing that Jim and his associates do here should serve as a model for other sites.
The left wants names.
it is legal to use fake names.
posting using fake names is legal.
The left wants to do what the left did when the left was wearing hoods, obtain membership lists of those in opposition in order to punish public statements.
We have tried the real names thing. Reporters of the effete media are essentially useless.
Of course the writers and the publication itself has no bearing on that trust...
The study seems primarily alarmed that the online comments section doesn’t think highly of media. Duh. Eliminating it won’t solve that problem.
Only a J-school graduate can comment on the news!
-PJ
I call B.S.
The media don’t like it that Americans are onto their biased, lying reporting, especially from racists like Pitts.
They want NAMES!! Names that they can turn over to employers or use to further destroy those whose opinions they don’t like.
My own local papers, that was getting hammered daily with great FReep-type conservative comments now demands names and addresses AND a call back before one is allowed to post.
Funny, now all that’s on their commenting board is lefties that agree with the newspapers’ lefty opinions.
That was right before I canceled my subscription.
As long as media sites continue to welcome former paid mouthpieces (such as stephanopolous) into their organizations as unbiased observers, there will be no resuscitation of trust.
These people can't be serious. Can they? If so, they are seriously, dangerously delusional!
But, on the other hand--we already know that!
The media consider anonymous comments to be acceptable in inverse proportion to the degree to which they consider themselves an arm of the government. If they weren’t Establishment, they wouldn’t care.
With incidents like the IRS using invasive tax audits on people whose politics it disapproves of; or the recent SWAT raid on a home because someone had posted via their unsecured wireless network, or political death threats from crazies, what sane person wouldn’t want the option of anonymity on the internet?
The Sacramento Bee stopped public comments long ago simply with a subscription fee. Now, even the most outrageous liberal scandals have virtually zero negative public comments. We all agree now.
Oh, just come out and say it: the Huffington-puffington Post and the Democratic Underground. Why beat around the bush?