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If you ever read the comments after news stories, you realize how messed up they are. People will blame Obama or the Republicans because somebody got hit by a car, and make sweeping generalizations about huge groups of people. Additionally, the main subject of news stories will often be the focus of relentless and untrue criticism. Why do you think this happens? It's embarrassing and a blight on today's society.
If you ever read the comments after news stories, you realize how messed up they are. People will blame Obama or the Republicans because somebody got hit by a car, and make sweeping generalizations about huge groups of people. Additionally, the main subject of news stories will often be the focus of relentless and untrue criticism. Why do you think this happens? It's embarrassing and a blight on today's society.
Do you mean on C-D, or in general?
Either way, people glean from News Stories what they want, and pass over the rest. And it's the nature of political debate to "blame the other side."
Either way, people glean from News Stories what they want, and pass over the rest. And it's the nature of political debate to "blame the other side."
Not so much on C-D. It's fairly well-moderated here, and while obviously some of the opinions are mind boggling to me at times, they're usually presented in a respectful way. Plus, if the thread is about "Is Obama a Socialist," comments about whether he is or not would be relevant to the topic at hand. A few other places, such as the New York Times and the Huffington Post seem to have decent comments as well.
I'm talking more about CNN or your local paper. For example, I would occasionally read comments from the Detroit Free Press and any time anything bad happened in the city of Detroit, the haters would come out of the woodwork. It got so bad that they had to switch to only allowing comments on Facebook to remove the anonymity. A lot of the comments there are also mean-spirited and slanderous against people in the article, often having nothing to do with politics but taking low blows at how the person looks or stuff like that.
It helps a lot of people feel better about themselves to scorn others anonymously. I'm with you though, while you fully expect ignorant, flip comments on web newspapers and sites such as Yahoo, it's amazing just how many idiots there are out there spreading their verbal diarrhea, without even the most cursory attempt at decorum.
If you ever read the comments after news stories, you realize how messed up they are. People will blame Obama or the Republicans because somebody got hit by a car, and make sweeping generalizations about huge groups of people. Additionally, the main subject of news stories will often be the focus of relentless and untrue criticism. Why do you think this happens? It's embarrassing and a blight on today's society.
Those blog comments come from people all over the world, so I would not assume they represent any one country.
As weird as it might sound, I think some people are hired to go on blogs and various discussions forums, and make positive comments about their client, and negative comments about their competition, and I think this includes politicians and political or social movements.
If you ever read the comments after news stories, you realize how messed up they are. People will blame Obama or the Republicans because somebody got hit by a car, and make sweeping generalizations about huge groups of people. Additionally, the main subject of news stories will often be the focus of relentless and untrue criticism. Why do you think this happens? It's embarrassing and a blight on today's society.
Well, it isn't like the average American is particularly smart. A lot of news stories are written and edited for a third-grade audience. A lot of people online are pricks; they're looking to inflame the whole forum. Yahoo is notorious for having garbage forums. Of course, some of the stories posted come across to me as being written to deliberately bait the online posters to stay junk. That's pretty much what the media is nowadays.
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They are messed up because they have a different view/perspective/agenda than you or I. It's all part & parcel to a free society (somewhat free, at least).
Not so much on C-D. It's fairly well-moderated here, and while obviously some of the opinions are mind boggling to me at times, they're usually presented in a respectful way. Plus, if the thread is about "Is Obama a Socialist," comments about whether he is or not would be relevant to the topic at hand. A few other places, such as the New York Times and the Huffington Post seem to have decent comments as well.
I'm talking more about CNN or your local paper. For example, I would occasionally read comments from the Detroit Free Press and any time anything bad happened in the city of Detroit, the haters would come out of the woodwork. It got so bad that they had to switch to only allowing comments on Facebook to remove the anonymity. A lot of the comments there are also mean-spirited and slanderous against people in the article, often having nothing to do with politics but taking low blows at how the person looks or stuff like that.
I have noticed it too in recent years and I really think it's a break down in society due in part to the popularity of reality TV shows which have helped mainstream bad behavior in public.
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