Shafer Breaks Through the Comment-Gates
Jack Shafer today takes a look at last week’s debacle over washingtonpost.com’s decision to remove comments from their post.blog following a barrage of negative comments directed against Ombudsman Deborah Howell (fyi, some comments have been returned).
I don’t envy the washingtonpost.com executives who had to decide whether to preserve the nasty Howell posts in the name of free speech or delete them in the interest of maintaining a civil, family-friendly space. But having erected a coffeehouse where readers are supposed to get their say, it seems like washingtonpost.com
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