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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOhio paper nixes Tamir Rice comment section: ‘A small army’ couldn’t stop the ‘cesspool’ of racism
The Cleveland Plain Dealer explained this week that it had disabled comments on all of its stories about a 12-year-old black child who was shot by police because a small army of administrators could not delete the racist comments fast enough.
In a column on Monday, Chris Quinn, the Northeast Ohio Media Groups Vice President of Content, said that the paper had hoped that articles about the shooting of Tamir Rice would be an ideal subject for us to meet one of our chief goals at cleveland.com, hosting community conversations on topics of widespread interest.
But he noted that comments had been disabled in October because we dont fancy our website as a place of hate, and the Tamir Rice story has been a magnet for haters.
We enlisted a small army on our staff to monitor the comments and delete any that violated our standards, Quinn wrote. The trouble was that we couldnt keep up. Just about every piece we published about Tamir immediately became a cesspool of hateful, inflammatory or hostile comments.
Rather than discuss the facts of the case, many commenters debased the conversation with racist invective. Or they made absurd statements about the clothing and appearance of people involved in the story. Or they attacked each other for having contrasting viewpoints. In many cases, well over half of the comments on Tamir stories broke our rules and had to be deleted. ...................(more)
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/cleveland-paper-nixes-tamir-rice-comment-section-a-small-army-couldnt-stop-the-cesspool-of-racism/
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Ohio paper nixes Tamir Rice comment section: ‘A small army’ couldn’t stop the ‘cesspool’ of racism (Original Post)
marmar
Dec 2015
OP
Faux pas
(14,674 posts)1. Sad sad sad
kairos12
(12,860 posts)2. Just another peek at what's brewing in this country currently.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)3. The Internet is full of racist trolls
They're everywhere.