This Just In: Internet Comments Often Rude, Vitriolic, Says NY Times

Newsbusters ^ | 11/05/07 | Clay Waters

[casino66]

New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt's Sunday column, "Civil Discourse, Meet the Internet," delivered some piping hot news, circa year 2000: Web comments can often be rude and crude.

"WARNING: This column contains rude and objectionable language not normally found in the pages of this newspaper but seen surprisingly often on its Web site.

[casino66]

The NYT gets a taste of liberal reality. They are upset, awwwwwwwwwww.

[Past Your Eyes]

ROFLMAO!

[shankbear]

Well......The Slimes can kiss my fat butt. Crude enough???

[granite]

(*^%$(+))_)*&(^%^%^$%!

[tioga]

Did someone call these pulers the NYSlimes? Poor babies.

[2ndDivisionVet]

If the New York Times said it, then bloggers are actually polite, well-mannered and courteous! LOL

[NormsRevenge]

heat .. kitchen .. stay the hell out

[no-to-illegals]

Woe...their target is who? There must be a target for these people if they are making accusations.

[pbear8]

pot...kettle...black

[jrushing]

Internet Comments Often Rude, Vitriolic, Says NY Times

We aren't rude, except when we talk of the NY Times!! Maybe vitroiolic, maybe rude,
say
"Times" Shove it!!

[casino66]

It must be dims, because if it were the good guys they would have ID’d us.

[longtermmemmory]

Its the NYT advising its readers to stay away from the scaaaary internet. NYT readers should stay with the safe and easy to comprend newsprint. The NYT will TELL YOU all you need to know....(/s)

[Enchante]

I guess this dipstick doesn’t read their own Op-Ed page..... where raving, raging charlatans Rich, Dowd, Herbert, and Krugman constantly obliterate civility and accuse every Republican (and especially real conservatives) of all sorts of dastardly hateful deeds and motivations all the time. Civility was being obliterated by the vicious frauds of the left years before the web even existed. Oh, and doesn’t anyone remember how we got the verb “to bork” as in “Ted Kennedy and pals ‘borked’ another Reagan/Bush nominee today with the most vicious and dishonest slanders......”

[Third Order]

I could do without comments on YouTube.

[advertising guy]

as far the Times, I wouldn’t piss in their ear if their brains were on fire

[Paladin2]

The NYT can go pound sand.

[Hunble]

"Cold Civil War"

Wait until it get hot!

[casino66]

YouTube is one of those “progressive” sites, along with Yahoo and Google. NYT is doing this to try to recover from their sagging sales and stock. Ain’t gonna happen.

[Delta 21]

I really dont understand why they think we should listen to what they print.

[groanup]

So the NYT can say anything it wants to, like divulge military secrets, but only if it does so politely?