Journal Star chickens out on reader comments

January 19, 2007
By Billy Dennis

I paid a return visit to Journal Star Website to read the comments posted about the Reading List pogrom and Phil Luciano’s column on David Haste’s retardation inducing lack of sleep. Guess what? The reader comments have been turned off. It’s a shame, because the comments I saw posted there just a few hours earlier showed a lot of wit and originality.

I have no idea why the comments were pulled. I hope it’s for some technical reason, but I strongly suspect that the powers-that-be just couldn’t cope with all that free speech being practiced by someone other than them.

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7 Responses to “ Journal Star chickens out on reader comments ”

  1. Cory on January 19, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    Gee whiz, even Vonster allows the unwashed masses to speak their piece. What Wrigley Field was to night games, the PJS is to reader comments.

  2. Emtronics on January 19, 2007 at 2:15 pm

    The comments are on and they are there. Because the PJS uses the Mickey Mouse sever as a host, one should expect mickey mouse behavior.

  3. Completely Oblivious on January 19, 2007 at 2:54 pm

    They probably recieved flaming comments, unfortunately. They have to still protect the fragile readers that are unfamiliar with the blogging hardheads.

  4. snazzy on January 19, 2007 at 4:12 pm

    The JS comments are on there. Not quite sure what you are smoking. I’ve been reading comments periodically throughout the day.

    Maybe you’re using a Mickey Mouse computer, cause the server is just fine.

  5. sctobrien on January 20, 2007 at 12:42 am

    Whoa, Billy, whoa…..

    Now isn’t this the kettle calling the pot black – aren’t you the same guy who has edited/deleted comments here for what you considered valid reasons?

  6. Billy Dennis on January 20, 2007 at 12:45 am

    First: The comments HAVE returned.

    Second: I never removed ALL comments from my blog. Just a few obnoxious knuckleheads over a five year period of allowing just about anything.

  7. V- a%S(p#E*rsT=`hE..]gra_Te[ on January 20, 2007 at 1:57 am

    Deleting spam and abuse comments is reader protection.

    Deleting contrary and argumentative comments is censorship, which is based on fear and impending defeat.