Yesterday, Yvonne Conway of Olympia had a LTE published in which she advocated violence against our elected officials. Her suggestion: "Those elected officials deserve to be horsewhipped, voted out of office with no pay, pension or health care." (emphasis mine)
I responded with a comment critical of the Olympian's decision to publish a letter that advocated such violence. The result? Yvonne's letter stayed; my comment was deleted.
Later, on a different story, Tammy McGee admonished us by saying,"Please get the comments back on the subject of the article, or I will be forced to close this thread. ~Thank you~" The comments continued to deteriorate, yet nothing was done. Interestingly, Boltcutters then made what just may be the only intelligent comment I've ever heard it utter: "You can't possibly think that there's any rhyme or reason with regard to the moderation of these forums can you???????????????????????"
Go figure.
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I was surprised that Tammy allowed this comment to remain:
Friendlyfoe
Are you a conservative? If so, I dont believe you.
in reply to Tammy McGee
http://www.theolympian.com/2011/04/18/1620529/conservatives-like-sen-kyl-seem.html
A race to the bottom of the realms of journalistic ignorance.
Again, a trip up north to the sister newspaper finds real moderation. If a comment is improper, it is deleted. I have yet to see a TNT moderator comment on a thread.
Tammy probably misses the good old days of an occasional byline.
Anybody notice that today Olympian comments contain the wording "Report Abuse" instead of "Flag"?
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