As you can imagine, we’ve watched the uproar closely in the wake of my blog post on Monday. I recounted the case of a person who lost his job at a local school after twice posting a vulgar comment on…
Editors this morning shut down readers’ ability to comment on the story “Drugs played no role in Coleman slayings.” Before the shutdown, the story drew 1,189 comments. Many of them were inappropriate, some vulgar.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch and STLtoday.com staffers try…
SIU-Carbondale’s college newspaper, the Daily Egyptian, has suspended online story comments, its editor told readers in a note last week.
“Congratulations,” wrote Editor Allison Petty, “It is not easy to offend college students who spend most of their time in a…
Yesterday’s Talk of the Day on STLtoday — “Palin and parenting” — asked readers:
Share your opinion on whether it’s sexist to question whether Sarah Palin should be running for national office with five children, including an infant with Down syndrome.…
