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It’s time to end anonymous comments sections
Washington Post ^ | August 19, 2014 | Kevin Wallsten and Melinda Tarsi

Posted on 08/19/2014 7:44:13 AM PDT by Second Amendment First

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To: Second Amendment First

Of course the writers and the publication itself has no bearing on that trust...


41 posted on 08/19/2014 8:08:47 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Second Amendment First

The study seems primarily alarmed that the online comments section doesn’t think highly of media. Duh. Eliminating it won’t solve that problem.


42 posted on 08/19/2014 8:09:12 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("LEX REX." ("The law is the king.") -- Samuel Rutherford)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Indeed! We’re supposed to trust this shadow wing of the gov’t?

LOL!!!!!!!!!


43 posted on 08/19/2014 8:11:26 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Bible Summary in a few verses: John 14:6, John 6:29, Romans 10:9-10)
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To: ilgipper
I agree with this, but while participants here on FR are generally well behaved, it isn't the case everywhere. Recently I was on several sports and entertainment sites where some of the most vile, nasty, things I've seen in awhile were going back and forth over football and which film finished first at the box office that week! People threatening to kill each other, Jewish conspiracies, aliens, and who knows what else tossed about over things most of us just shrug our shoulders at and move on. I think shutting down the comments sections is going to become the trend over the next few years.
44 posted on 08/19/2014 8:12:16 AM PDT by aegiscg47
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To: Second Amendment First
You're not qualified to comment on the news!

Only a J-school graduate can comment on the news!

-PJ

45 posted on 08/19/2014 8:13:46 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: WayneS
Thanks for reading! You know about our great history of issuing anonymous tracts and pamphlets. Tom Paine was big on this and the British hated whoever was issuing this effective anti-Brit propaganda. His "Common Sense" was anonymous

wikipedia
Common Sense[1] is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. In clear, simple language it explained the advantages of and the need for immediate independence. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution and became an immediate sensation. It was sold and distributed widely and read aloud at taverns and meeting places. Washington had it read to all his troops, which at the time had surrounded the British army in Boston. In proportion to the population of the colonies at that time (2.5 million), it had the largest sale and circulation of any book published in American history.[2]

Common Sense presented the American colonists with an argument for freedom from British rule at a time when the question of whether or not to seek independence was the central issue of the day. Paine wrote and reasoned in a style that common people understood. Forgoing the philosophical and Latin references used by Enlightenment era writers, he structured Common Sense as if it were a sermon, and relied on Biblical references to make his case to the people.[3] He connected independence with common dissenting Protestant beliefs as a means to present a distinctly American political identity.[4] Historian Gordon S. Wood described Common Sense as "the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era".[5]
46 posted on 08/19/2014 8:14:48 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: PATRIOT1876

Another thing anonymous comments do...shatter the myth that the majority of the population are libtards!


47 posted on 08/19/2014 8:15:06 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: Second Amendment First

I call B.S.

The media don’t like it that Americans are onto their biased, lying reporting, especially from racists like Pitts.

They want NAMES!! Names that they can turn over to employers or use to further destroy those whose opinions they don’t like.

My own local papers, that was getting hammered daily with great FReep-type conservative comments now demands names and addresses AND a call back before one is allowed to post.

Funny, now all that’s on their commenting board is lefties that agree with the newspapers’ lefty opinions.

That was right before I canceled my subscription.


48 posted on 08/19/2014 8:19:01 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Tired? There's a napp for that!!)
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To: Second Amendment First

As long as media sites continue to welcome former paid mouthpieces (such as stephanopolous) into their organizations as unbiased observers, there will be no resuscitation of trust.


49 posted on 08/19/2014 8:20:44 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: PATRIOT1876
There are many similarities to today's’ “progressives” and the Nazi's of yesteryear. To many for my comfort level. I see an incestuous relationship between the Democrats and the Muslims beginning. It will not end well.
50 posted on 08/19/2014 8:31:35 AM PDT by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: Second Amendment First
"damage trust in the news media"?????

These people can't be serious. Can they? If so, they are seriously, dangerously delusional!

But, on the other hand--we already know that!

51 posted on 08/19/2014 8:31:46 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Hubris and denial overwhelm Western Civilization. Nemesis and tragedy always follow.)
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To: Second Amendment First

The media consider anonymous comments to be acceptable in inverse proportion to the degree to which they consider themselves an arm of the government. If they weren’t Establishment, they wouldn’t care.


52 posted on 08/19/2014 8:36:19 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Second Amendment First

With incidents like the IRS using invasive tax audits on people whose politics it disapproves of; or the recent SWAT raid on a home because someone had posted via their unsecured wireless network, or political death threats from crazies, what sane person wouldn’t want the option of anonymity on the internet?


53 posted on 08/19/2014 8:43:05 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Second Amendment First

The Sacramento Bee stopped public comments long ago simply with a subscription fee. Now, even the most outrageous liberal scandals have virtually zero negative public comments. We all agree now.


54 posted on 08/19/2014 8:44:55 AM PDT by TauntedTiger (On the outside looking in!)
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To: Second Amendment First
“...havens for a level of crudity, bigotry, meanness, factual inaccuracy and plain nastiness that shocks the tattered remnants of our propriety.”

Oh, just come out and say it: the Huffington-puffington Post and the Democratic Underground. Why beat around the bush?

55 posted on 08/19/2014 8:48:59 AM PDT by DJ Frisat (Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
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To: Second Amendment First

the media’s “confidential informants” are excluded


56 posted on 08/19/2014 8:50:37 AM PDT by stylin19a (Obama ----> Fredo smart)
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To: Second Amendment First

We certainly wouldn’t want to disrupt the MSM party line


57 posted on 08/19/2014 8:53:14 AM PDT by rights with responsibilities
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To: Second Amendment First

Comments over at the article are pretty good, too. Not much love goin’ on...


58 posted on 08/19/2014 8:56:11 AM PDT by W.
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To: Second Amendment First

Styfling free speech is the Left’s primary preocupation.


59 posted on 08/19/2014 9:00:33 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Second Amendment First

It’s harder to indict Anonymous.


60 posted on 08/19/2014 9:01:45 AM PDT by DManA
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