Columnist Wades Through Some Steaming 'Twitter Sewage'

Dick Polman (pictured), a columnist with the Philadelphia Inquirer, blogger for WHYY-FM and writing professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has shared a juicy excoriation of Twitter’s callous, partisan underbelly.

He notes that after the LA Times published a preliminary article overnight Sunday about some hit-and-run incidents in the San Gabriel Valley involving U.S. Secretary of Commerce John Bryson, the Twittersphere quickly reared its ugly head. With some right-leaning typists surmising the events were related to drunk driving:

Within minutes, the Twitter sewage began to flow.

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