‘Grass-roots’ protests had Wiki written all over them
January 21, 2012 at 6:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
In case you somehow missed it last week, Congress tried to sneak one past the American people by crafting a law, ostensibly to protect copyrights, that would allow Big Brother to censor the Internet if anyone on your block even thinks of downloading a pre-release copy of “Red Tails.”
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A large number of facebook users also expressed their concerns about restrictions on what can be posted on the internet, and popular websites such as craigslist alerted users to the pending legislation. Apparently the influence of internet users is growing, and some newspaper editors and publishers fear the loss of control of what the public sees and reads. The Fargo Forum recently eliminated feedback forums such as this so online readers cannot comment or express their opinion on what gets published.
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Thinking people should boycott the advertisers of the Fargo Forum until they re-establish feedback forums.
The individuals who hide behind the term “Media”, or “Editorial Board”, simply hate hearing someone else’s opinion. There are only four or five individuals who use these megaphones like the Wizard of Oz did. Look behind the curtain and they are shlubs like the rest of us. There is no “media”, it is a group of individuals, with names, learn who they are.
As someone wise said: “The media outlets are staffed by the masters of the art of image and persuasion, and they call forth as allies, the incalculable pressure of our susceptible peers to win us over to their prideful hierarchy of values.”
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“Starting today we will no longer give our soapbox to anonymous voices on our website. As publisher of this newspaper, I can no longer justify giving a platform to vultures who comment on our content.”
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I have no problem with newspapers not allowing online comments. Just because many news sites have experimented with it in the brief history of the internet, some people seem to think it’s their given right to be able to comment on articles. At this point, I think it’s pretty much been proven that the experiment was a failure. 90% of the comments you read online are angry, misinformed, inaccurate statements from trolls who have nothing better to do. Most comments are downright insulting to sources in the story, the journalist, the newspaper, other commenters, and anyone else you can possibly imagine.
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Respectfully, this sounds like thinly veiled intellectual vanity.
Can it be deduced that “some people” seem to think that because of chance and fortune, it’s their given right to publish opinionated articles without feedback?
Can anyone do their job without feedback from others, boss, customers….or conscience?
Perhaps only in the newspaper and TV business…. and then only until advertisers and consicence realize that people are turning off the TV and not buying paper. After all, its a cash-flow world…..for everyone.
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You’re free to write a letter to the editor. The DNT will publish any that are appropriate and accurate. You can also easily email journalists and editors when you have feedback and concern. 99% of newspaper employees probably don’t even read these comments here, so it’s far from being the only effective way of giving feedback.
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