January 20, 2006
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Interesting story of “Democrats behaving badly”
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/19/D8F82TA80.html
Paper Shutters Blog After Ombudsman Post
Jan 19 7:28 PM US/Eastern
WASHINGTONThe Washington Post shut down one of its blogs Thursday after the
newspaper’s ombudsman raised the ire of readers by writing that
lobbyist Jack Abramoff gave money to the Democrats as well as to
Republicans.At the center of a congressional bribery investigation, Abramoff gave
money to Republicans while he had his clients donate to both parties,
though mostly to Republicans.In her Sunday column, ombudsman Deborah Howell wrote that Abramoff “had
made substantial campaign contributions to both major parties,”
prompting a wave of nasty reader postings on post.blog.There were so many personal attacks that the newspaper’s staff could
not “keep the board clean, there was some pretty filthy stuff,” and so
the Post shut down comments on the blog, or Web log, said Jim Brady,
executive editor of washingtonpost.com.“We’re not giving up on the concept of having a healthy public dialogue
with our readers, but this experience shows that we need to think more
carefully about how we do it,” Brady wrote on the newspaper’s Web site.
“There are things that we said we would not allow, including personal
attacks, the use of profanity and hate speech.”___
On the Net:
Washington Post blog: http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/washpostblog/
