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Yes there are idiots on there that definitely go too far and as it is an unmoderated forum as far as I can tell so it can get very rank. They ruin it for everyone else who wants to talk about the news.
That is pretty much the reason forums on certain topics were closed for commenting. It had nothing to do with the race of the criminal, but the fact that when the criminal was a certain race there were people who decided to turn the entire thread into a contest of how many times they could throw the n & s word around.
Anyway on Newsday's website they have a local police mug shot gallery, where they have mugshots of people of all races, and ethnic backgrounds who have been charged with various crimes. The idea that they tried to hide crimes committed by minorities as some sort of an agenda is absurd and isn't backed up by the facts.
My husband likes to proof read it. Its written on 4th grade reading level. He highlights the mistakes while he's in the bathroom (welcome to my world).
Now that the slimy Dolans own it, its TOTALLY slanted just like news12.
ILLEGAL aliens aka CRIMINALS are made out to be innocent, upstanding, taxpaying citizens.
Its insulting.
PS: Actually one of the fun things to do online when there is a [domain blocked due to spam] link available is how people would catch the mistakes and post them there making fun of Newsday!
there was an article up last year that told the story of a guy from Long Island that was found dead in upstate NY a few years ago...but the body was only identified recently through a photograph or something like that.
Anyway, the article was so poorly written that people in my office were passing it around commenting on how awful it was. You had to read it 3-4 times to figure out what the hell had happened. Naturally, the comments section was flooded with people bashing the article. After about 10 hours or so, a new version of the article magically appeared.
Anyway on Newsday's website they have a local police mug shot gallery, where they have mugshots of people of all races, and ethnic backgrounds who have been charged with various crimes. The idea that they tried to hide crimes committed by minorities as some sort of an agenda is absurd and isn't backed up by the facts.
Obviously when the person is caught and there's a mug shot floating around, the person's race is usually going to be apparent.
For the most part, however, Newsday omits a person's race from articles that describe unsolved crimes. It's absurd to read an article that describes what type of jacket the bank robber was wearing but doesn't clue you in on their race.
My husband likes to proof read it. Its written on 4th grade reading level. He highlights the mistakes while he's in the bathroom (welcome to my world).
Now that the slimy Dolans own it, its TOTALLY slanted just like news12.
ILLEGAL aliens aka CRIMINALS are made out to be innocent, upstanding, taxpaying citizens.
Its insulting.
I have noticed the last comment time and time again myself...
That is pretty much the reason forums on certain topics were closed for commenting. It had nothing to do with the race of the criminal, but the fact that when the criminal was a certain race there were people who decided to turn the entire thread into a contest of how many times they could throw the n & s word around.
Often there is never any thread available from the beginning, NOT that there was one and then Newsday had to delete it because of bad behavior on the part of the posters.
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Anyway on Newsday's website they have a local police mug shot gallery, where they have mugshots of people of all races, and ethnic backgrounds who have been charged with various crimes. The idea that they tried to hide crimes committed by minorities as some sort of an agenda is absurd and isn't backed up by the facts.
Yes, to their credit, they do not pick and choose faces in the mug shot gallery.
there was an article up last year that told the story of a guy from Long Island that was found dead in upstate NY a few years ago...but the body was only identified recently through a photograph or something like that.
Anyway, the article was so poorly written that people in my office were passing it around commenting on how awful it was. You had to read it 3-4 times to figure out what the hell had happened. Naturally, the comments section was flooded with people bashing the article. After about 10 hours or so, a new version of the article magically appeared.
OMG! I remember this one! I was one of the people who bashed it!
I swear that they must be outsourcing the writing of the articles to India or something and posting them under fake names so they can pay their workers pennies on the dollar and just using a spell checker for cleaning up the spelling of the Queen's english.
ILLEGAL aliens aka CRIMINALS are made out to be innocent, upstanding, taxpaying citizens.
Its insulting.
Yes! The butt-kissing of illegal aliens (aka "immigrant(s)" as Newsday calls them) is pathetic! It also mixes up real legal immigrants with the illegal alien criminals and tries to make both look equally entitled to be here. I respect legal immigrants. I don't respect illegal alien criminals and do not consider them the equals of legal immigrants, yet Newsday wants to brainwash us into that.
NEWSDAY doesn't have a moral or ethical obligation to print the Truth, ABOUT ANYTHING.
As a business, it will print the Truths of it's regular readers and subscribers.
At least, in this country, and on Long Island, we can find something to "say" to ourselves, what we want to hear. Even if that could be, the shrill sound of the Liberal Mocking Bird.
Often there is never any thread available from the beginning, NOT that there was one and then Newsday had to delete it because of bad behavior on the part of the posters.
Sometimes its there from the start and gets removed, other times its not there at all, and again it has nothing with wanting to limit discussion on certain type of criminals or anything like that, but the actions of certain posters who feel the need to turn every thread about a minority criminal into a minority bash fest.
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