Posted on 02/21/2014 9:08:20 PM PST by Sideshow Bob
The media is the only business where the customer is always wrong.
Ah, yes, the famous Daily Beast/Newsweek gambit.
Actually, the widely used commenting system Disqus is the one that changed the down arrow policy in the last couple of days. I assume NRO uses Disqus, but I suspect they had little to do with the change, although they might have had input into the decision I suppose.
I would think they would like the libertarians, the GOPe seems to want to move left on the social issues and true conservatism, while retaining a right leaning economic message.
Having spent over a decade in the media I assure you that editorial departments and reporters think they are far smarter than you. In fact, they think you (readers) are a moron.
Are you sure that it was Disqus? Or is it just a Disqus option that NRO recently implemented?
When you find yourself attacking Thomas Sowell as a RINO and demanding (insinuating ) that he not be published for us to read, that is when you know you have gone wrong, real wrong.
Nice Limbaugh quote.
If you go back long before the Sowell comments, long before Mark Steyn's very public knock-down-dragout with the homosexual NRO managing editor a few weeks ago, even long before Derb was fired for what NRO deemed were some "racially insensitive" [but IMHO true] remarks, NRO's comment sections have been savagely troll-bombed by Leftists for a long time now.
A lot of us who comment there have been complaining how the comments section looks a lot more like one for The Nation than one for NRO for a very long time, and asking when the site was going to bring the obvious agents provocateur to heel.
I don't know if the change is really about the Tea Party, or finally a response to Enemy Posters. [Which JRob would throw summarily out of here with a nice juicy Zot at the first sign of the kind of raving leftwing lunacy I've been seeing in the comments at NRO.]
I give Thomas Sowell a pass; he's not often wrong, but occasionally even Homer nods. Mona Charen? Meh. Who cares? But I do agree with you about the overall drift of the publication, which has now become quite alarming.
Has National Review finally succumbed to O'Sullivan's Law? We shall see...
Lowry has basically scuttled National Review.
Some insight into why they may have hidden the down arrow ratings.
http://www.redstate.com/2012/09/01/our-failing-disqus-experiment/
Looks like it’s an overall change on the Disqus format. Not just on the NRO site.
National Review (and NRO) are simply decaying as many institutions do. As the stink from the decay increases, they are simply trying to hide the truth of that decay and how much they are diverging from the American conservative population.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
From what I gleaned from the Redstate comments, there seems to be a troll problem enabled by the fact that Disqus aggregates a commenter’s posts from all sites and allows stalkers to downvote everything the commenter ever wrote.
NRO has always had a huge contingent of leftist trolls that sometimes outnumber the conservative commenters.
I cancelled in 2008, and sometimes when I read my old-old copies, it breaks my heart to see how good it was, for so many years.
Just like we opined and supsected. It is a concerted effort to slam Senator Cruz and our TEA Patriots.
Well, divide and conquer, has backfired.
When people post stupid conspiracy crap like this it makes all of us who hold similar political views look bad.
The change was to and by disqus and applies to all websites that use their commenting program (cf. http://www.theatlantic.com/ )
Do a little research before posting stupid crap.
Please note I was not a Wallace supporter and a case could be made that he (Wallace) represented a substantial danger to Nixon as he could siphon off Conservative or disenchanted Democrats votes. Granted. But NR spent ALL of its time attacking Wallace and little, or none, doing the same with Humphrey.
It became quite clear NR is nothing more than an extension of the Establishment, both Republican and Democrat, which dominates our politics. It talks a great talk but doesn't really do the walk. I haven't trusted it since.
Agreed. National Review is utter garbage.
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