Robbie, what bothers me about this is the suggestion that the newspaper prefers to use your piece as troll bait to increase page views so the blog is more valuable to advertisers. That suggests to me that the story is only newsworthy if it brings out all the haters.
I find the comment forums for online versions of newpapers along with call-in comments to talk radio to be a detrimental to our democracy. The anonymity in these so-called debates, have become seed beds for anger and hatred that have spilled over into the rest of our interpersonal society. Civility is becoming a thing of the past and people have come to feel that it is acceptable to walk up to someone they don’t know and rage at them. On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Robbie Webber <[email protected]>wrote: > I wrote a letter to the editor of the Cap Times, and he asked if he could > post it as a blog, to draw comments from readers. I'm quite sure I will be > pilloried in the Madison.com comments section, so I thought maybe I'd also > let a more friendly audience know as well. > http://bit.ly/py0OCo > > It has always bugged me that the papers continue to label traffic > enforcement as a "speed trap," as if it's all sneaky and hidden. Anyway, you > can read the rest of it at the link above. > > > Robbie Webber > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > > -- Dave Schlabowske Dir. of Communications Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin 414-271-9685 www.bfw.org
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