When Online Commenters Attack

The NY Observer‘s Felix Gillette wrote a touching profile Tuesday about Mimi Gurbst, a senior producer for “ABC World News” who was leaving the TV news world to join academia.

The comments that followed the article tell a very different story. 32 comments were posted as of writing, almost all of them attacking Ms. Gurbst for her actions at ABC News or Mr. Gillette for not being sufficiently critical of his subject.

In a sense the article epitomizes the conundrum facing journalists in a Web world.

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