o the Editor:Posted on 01/09/2005 10:27:15 PM PST by RWR8189
o the Editor:
As the administrator of the Web site Democratic Underground, I am perplexed as to why you would consider an obscure posting on a busy Internet discussion forum to be worthy of an article ("Myths Run Wild in Blog Tsunami Debate," news article, Jan. 3).
Your article did not make clear that the message in question was posted by a completely anonymous individual, whose identity and political agenda are impossible to determine. The article also did not mention that the posting appeared to be an innocent question from a person guilty of nothing more than ignorance. Indeed, the posting's title (which you did not mention) was "One more dumb question regarding the earthquake in Asia."
Our discussion forum is different from a traditional blog. We get approximately 25,000 messages posted each day, and we cannot possibly check them all for accuracy.
It is fairly common for right-wing Web sites to cherry-pick the most extreme or outlandish posts from our forum in order to paint all liberals as wacky or extreme. I was surprised to see The Times doing it, too.
David Allen
Washington, Jan. 5, 2005
Look, David! I'm doing it right now!
You're tired and headed for bed?
I knew it.
Except for the fact that this particular nugget of nonsense was hardly a rare sentiment about the tsunamis.
Man! The earthquakes around the Great War and WWII must have been horrific. I wonder why we've never heard of them?
I doubt they get that many postings in a day. Perhaps when the election was fever pitched, but most of the bozos don't get out of bed until 10 and are smoking pot by 2. 25000 doesn't seem feasible. Bunch of whiners.
Democrat math. Just divide by 10 for a more accurate number!
Bwah hah hah hah hah.
Frankly, I agree with the letter.
Whether FR or DU, one would think that a "News" organization would have better things to do than troll blogs for stupid statements and make them into stories.
Wonder what the Old Grey Whore has to say today.
Ah, you're up!
Disgraced Underground
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