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The Janesville (Wisconsin) Gazette has a lot in common with the Missoulian – especially on the web. We both attract about 4 million pageviews per month to our websites, and many thousands of online comments. We are both troubled by the increasingly angry, disrespectful and oftentimes profane nature of those comments – which often begin on topic, [...] No one disputed that the online comments on stories about a head-on crash that killed a woman, her unborn baby and her son were “hateful and repulsive,” in the words of defense attorneys. But those 142 reader comments were not enough to convince a Flathead County judge to move the murder trial of a Kalispell teenager [...] After lighting up the blogosphere nationwide by shutting off online reader comments earlier this week, the Portland Press Herald has restored the service, using new moderation tools but without requiring commenters to use their real names. The Maine newspaper eliminated online comments on Tuesday, citing “vile, crude, insensitive and vicious postings” on its website. They are not [...] Calling them “vile, crude, insensitive and vicious,” the Press Herald in Portland, Maine, has shut down the reader comments section of its online edition. This week’s announcement by the newspaper comes amid increasing concern at newspapers nationwide about the content – much of it truly vile, crude and insensitive – of comments posted on news and [...] The story of a Huson woman who bonked an angry black bear on the head – as it tried to bust into her house one night last week – just keeps spreading. Last night, comedian Seth Meyers included the story on his long-running “Weekend Edition” news skit on “Saturday Night Live.” “A woman in Montana used a [...] A judge in Flathead County is scheduled to hear arguments Wednesday from the lawyer for an Evergreen teenager who wants her murder trial moved because of vicious online comments made on a newspaper’s website. Justine Winter is 17 and accused of intentionally slamming her car headlong into a car driven by a pregnant woman. The woman, [...] |
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‘How about we just pray and be quiet?’
The last time many of her colleagues saw Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, she was reading the First Amendment on the floor of the House.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the [...]