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The Good Old Fashioned Morons In New Jersey
My new favorite source for up-to-the-second commentary on anything, the Courier-Post Forums, has a hot debate going on right not that dwarfs any previous debates about why homosexuality is a choice and why Jews and Indians are doctors. The backstory: A dog named Congo bit a landscaper and was sentenced to death. But since we only get bloodthirsty about humans being put to death, the dog was spared by a State Assembly panel. Oh, but there’s a twist. I think it’s best to just let the Courier-Post explain this one: “The story connects hot-issue circuitry. Mix the gentility of leafy, enlightened Princeton with the dog-lovers and the immigration debate — the landscaper is reported to have been an illegal from Honduras — and the story quickly won global appeal.” Congo is New Jersey’s Jocelyn Kirsch! Congo’s owner, some guy named Guy James, says the ninety-six bites our friendly Honduran immigrant received were actually in self defense after the dude and some buddies hit the dog with a rake. Assemblyman Neil Cohen went to visit the dog and decided, hey, this dog’s fine: “Congo had sat patiently and played with a ‘Hanukkah toy’ from Cohen, while reporters and photographers accompanied the legislator.”
Ha ha ha! It’s good to see the more popular the Internet gets, somehow it even becomes stupider. I did not think this was possible. Even back as a seventh grader on AOL I thought we had reached critical stupidity mass. At this point I’m pretty enthused as to where the ‘net is going to go next. |
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The reader forums on most papers are truly scary places. Newspapers have become interactive because they really, really, really, really want to hear from their readers. Right? After that, they ignore comments, making it pretty clear they place no value at all on reader input.
Here’s a few jewels from The Allentown Morning Call’s reader forum.
“This problem ends if you get rid of the negros. Any black man 20 years of age or older not working without a degree gets shipped off to the military. Make them the first wave in any assault.”
Or this.
“THIS TRASH AND THE SALSA COCKROACH TYPE ALIKE ARE RUINING THE LEHIGH VALLEY AND THE POCONOS!!!!!!!!!”
And it’s everywhere, not just at The Morning Call or the Courier-Post.
A Morning Call columnist claims these forums should be encouraged, and offers this amazing justification: “The Internet is a big part of our newspaper’s future. The tremendous traffic on our Web site is a selling point for advertisers and future subscribers. And the comments, warts and all, attract a lot of those clicks.”
I guess hard-core porn is next.
Bernie, you underestimate the dollars that the Morning Call could get in selling advertising to racists. It’s a boom business!
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