Etiquette counts, even on blogs
If you’ve ever scanned the comments on a no-holds-barred blog, you know how nasty people can get, especially when they’re anonymous. Or, you might have posted what you thought was a perfectly fine...
View ArticleJust who is a journalist? A political operative?
A spat between Vice President Joe Biden and a staffer at Human Events is probably delighting Democrats and Republicans alike. Depending on whose corner you’re in, Biden got it on with a conservative...
View ArticleOuting trolls doesn’t violate free speech
“There’s a delicious irony” in outing Internet trolls who enjoy “exposing strangers to ridicule, contempt and objectification on the Internet,” says Damon Poeter in PCMAG. “There’s a difference between...
View ArticleCall me stupid, but don’t call me a troll
A lot of people say dumb things online, but that doesn’t make them a troll, says Farhad Manjoo in Slate. Trolls deliberately pick fights by faking stupidity while everyone else believes what they’re...
View ArticleDon’t dismiss JFK theories
When debunking conspiracy theories on JFK’s assassination, “big-bore public intellectuals tend to think of themselves as floating above the fray; but really, they’re no better or worse than the...
View ArticleFoolish post on escaped killers
I read blogs occasionally, but I may have read my last one: The one noted in the July 8 Observation Deck that contained Rosemary Armao’s comments regarding the Dannemora escapees in which she said, “…...
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