Comments on: Bloggers vs. Mainstream Media: Reader Feedback

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:39:53 +0000

I see that John's comment has in the meantime been deleted but can be read in the link above, which hopefully won't infringe upon the policy of OTB.

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:31:51 +0000

John, Even though your personal mantra is is simultaneously repeated verbatim on my blog and you obviously simply copy paste it onto several unrelated issue discussions to aggravate the right side of the blogosphere, I shall humor you with a response, obviously cross posted. Perhaps calling us "Fascist filth swallowers" makes you feel better, but it does not alter the fact that your own party is responsible for it's downfall, NO ONE ELSE. And the so called "dignified walkout" you dream about is never going to happen, again for no other reason other than the incompetency of the screaming banshee Democratic Senators YOU as a party, no one else, have democratically elected. You have to stop blaming others for your own party's inadequacies and shortcomings, and start looking at your so called filth outside your own doorstep. You can't just keep jumping over the excrement outside your own doorstep and then run to the other side and scream how "they are full of shit". No one is responsible for the downgrading of your own party and no amount of name calling of the other side, including your own President is going to change that. Sort yourselves out and then come back and insult, the insults may carry more weight then. As it stands it just makes you all look desperate. A further response is published as a post here.

By: All Things Beautiful

All Things Beautiful — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:27:55 +0000

If You Believe In Nothing You'll Fall For Anything

Getty Images A brilliant comment by one of my readers Stefan, on the last thread, I felt was a good platform for a debate on exactly why the once considered serious Democratic party has been reduced to a dysfunctional nihilistic disorganization whose ...

By: Eddie Thomas

Eddie Thomas — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 06:50:05 +0000

First, I agree that a newspaper has good reason to filter out comments that ordinary bloggers might let go, or shut off comments altogether. Many of their readers who find their way to the blog may not be blog-savvy, and would judge comments with the same standard as a letter to the editor. Why, as a business, would you risk it?

Second, I find it odd that the lefty bloggers are claiming some kind of moral superiority because their sites have comments while the largest center/right sites do not. Isn't that a sign that the incivility of the left exceeds that of the right? And isn't it a sign that the right is more sensitive to that incivility?

For reasons that I have forgotten I get a newsletter from a "justice movement" organization based in Atlanta. At least half of the articles describe, with much congratulation, leftists trying to obstruct the speech and activity of others. This kind of behavior is not unknown on the right, but conservatives don't generally take this approach.

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 05:36:44 +0000

I wrote about this the other day. In fact, numerous times. It irritates me so much that the WaPo did what they did. I'm not a commenter there, but the fact is that commenting is the currency of blogs. I admire the Post for having the balls to jump into the blogosphere but they should have looked before they leaped and if they did not have the kahunas to deal with the commentary, they shouldn't have joined. To turn comments off is cowardly and an insult to everyopne who works hard to get the readership they do have. WaPo is simply whoring their reputation for a few extra dollars and not even paying the piper to do so through comments.

By: dustbury.com

dustbury.com — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:44:12 +0000

Yakety yak (do talk back)

There are somewhere around 13,000 comments posted here, which is not a particularly high number by the standards of blogs higher on the food chain. I suspect, though, that there...