Posted on 01/20/2006 5:11:48 AM PST by seanmerc
Paper Shutters Blog After Ombudsman Post Jan 19 7:28 PM US/Eastern
WASHINGTON
The Washington Post shut down one of its blogs Thursday after the newspaper's ombudsman raised the ire of readers by writing that lobbyist Jack Abramoff gave money to the Democrats as well as to Republicans.
At the center of a congressional bribery investigation, Abramoff gave money to Republicans while he had his clients donate to both parties, though mostly to Republicans.
In her Sunday column, ombudsman Deborah Howell wrote that Abramoff "had made substantial campaign contributions to both major parties," prompting a wave of nasty reader postings on post.blog.
There were so many personal attacks that the newspaper's staff could not "keep the board clean, there was some pretty filthy stuff," and so the Post shut down comments on the blog, or Web log, said Jim Brady, executive editor of washingtonpost.com.
"We're not giving up on the concept of having a healthy public dialogue with our readers, but this experience shows that we need to think more carefully about how we do it," Brady wrote on the newspaper's Web site. "There are things that we said we would not allow, including personal attacks, the use of profanity and hate speech."
How DARE anyone tell the truth about 'Rats! The nerve!
Do it on DU and see what happens.
I'd get banned just for breathing over there.
For some reason Madam Hillary came to mind with that image.
>>>hmm, to hear the dims talk, the left is incapable of hate speech. >>>
No, you don't understand. When you are screaming names and cussing out a repuuuuublican, it isn't hate speech. It's 'justifiable' speech. Because as I've been told, "If I've got to deal with someone as stupid as you, then you deserve it". This was of course after I'd wiped her and her ideas in the dust with LOGIC and TRUTH.
ahhh I see :)
.....coupled with copious amounts of liberal indoctrination in public schools and universities..............mixed well with 'everybody else but me', lack of integrity and faith and moral foundation, well we can't help but wind up with The Left moonbats!!
No, the DU would ban you for sucking away all their oxygen.
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain, I am the great and powerful Oz!”
Yes. I don't think the paper shut it down because it disagreed with what she wrote, but because it was disgusted by the reaction of the left wingers.
Kind of reminds me of the Enron scandal. Every time the left would connect a Republican to Ken Lay, they also ended up finding "guilty" Democrats in the process. The act of using Lay to bring down a Republican also could take out two or more Dems with the same charge. That's why the story dropped, the Dems decided to quit while they were behind.
Lemme guess. The DU-ers took the day off from their own board only to go trash the Washington Post board.
Seems "Hate Speech" is only that which is directed at liberals....
I ponder what their position is on a "chocolate New Orleans"?
Liberals go crazy because they don't get the truth from the media. They are dumb-downed with kool-aid. When confronted with the truth they go ape-shit, might be a good reality show. Hannity kinda shows how stupid libs are by doing his man in the street bits.
"I've always said that the best thing you can do with the Washington Post (or the New York Times) is line the bottom of the birdcage with it."
Be fore-warned.
My parrot was quite the conversationalist at one time. We had discourses on Economics, Social Duty, and even Spiritual discourse.
Then, in an attempt to save money, I used the free "Express" version of the POSt(caps intended) to line his cage.
Now, all he says is, "It's Bush's fault!"
Have you ever noticed, there is the Wicked Witch of the East and the Wicked Witch of the West, and the Good Witch of the North, but they don't mention the Witch of the South?
She must be the moderate of the family...waiting to see who wins before taking sides.
A coworker who is a lib, posted the same thing at Dump. She was banned within an hour. She claimed to be a member for over 18 months. Truth hurts.
>>>She must be the moderate of the family...waiting to see who wins before taking sides.>>>
Yeah, it's John McCain in drag.
That must be why the God Witch couldn't go after the Wicked WItch herself. The Moderate Witch of the South made sure she did not have any CIA prisons in the Emerald City where she could extract information about insurgent flying monkeys.
>>>That must be why the God Witch couldn't go after the Wicked WItch herself. The Moderate Witch of the South made sure she did not have any CIA prisons in the Emerald City where she could extract information about insurgent flying monkeys.>>>
LOLOLOL
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