Posted by Christopher Davidson in Jeers, News
on Aug 3rd, 2009 | 3 comments
Often times I enjoy reading comments more than I enjoy reading actual news articles. Today was no different with the persuasive article from The Courier Press. Unfortunately this article focuses on guilting the reader into providing all the info the Census asks so that the city can get more funding from the government and hovers around political motivation for low population numbers. Whatever the case, the comments are already being fired back about not wanting to provide personal information to the government.
A sample of comments:
The problem with the census is that Obama has illegally taken...
Posted by Christopher Davidson in Jeers
on Jun 11th, 2009 | 0 comments
Has anyone else noticed how cruel and unusual most of the comments are over at CourierPress.com? I mean, it's like the worst of Evansville comes out to leave obscure comments on horrible stories, that no doubt family members are reading. Some of which I'm surprised pass a language filter, but others are just there to be rude.
The Evansville Courier should be taking steps to prevent 50% of those comments from even being published. While automated scripts will catch the curse words, it looks like there needs to be a full time moderator of the site. Someone to hang around and just keep the site...