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      <title>Comments On: Today in nola.com comments
    
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      <![CDATA[Read this, thought you guys might find this interesting-- http://www.flypmedia.com/issues/27/#1/1
        
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    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:18:57 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Registration? You already have to register at nola.com to make any comment whatsoever.
        
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          Ray M]]>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:34:05 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Lauren Wilbert]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Hi. I&#146;m a NOLA.com producer and I wanted to let all of you know that this is an issue that we are seriously grappling with.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Lizzy Caston]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Clifton,  awesome and insightful, as usual. I did a bunch of work at a National Public Radio station here in Portland, OR last summer on this very issue (www.opb.org/thinkoutloud) There was much debate on whether or not to require registration before commenting, moderating comments, and how to implement commenting policies.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Clifton Harris]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[My biggest problem is the anonymous aspect of it. It makes people who read those hateful things not have anyone specific to channel their reaction to and it breeds general racial animosity.
        
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      <![CDATA[To me the comments aren't just racist. That's just the tip of the iceberg.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Clay]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Nola.com comments: when you're too racist to call into talk radio.
        
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      <![CDATA[Ray M. I understand the particular case was not New Orleans related.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Jimmy B]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Check out the comments on a random YouTube video about Barack Obama. They make the nola.com racism look like child's play.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Joe Longo]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I believe they call themselves the "silent majority."
        
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      <![CDATA[This particular crime didn't take place in NOLA at all. It was in California.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Robert]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I am usually feisty enough to take on racist trolls, but it's so horrible over there, I am not really willing. I think it would be great if the local media in New Orleans would do a feature piece looking at race and crime in a responsible manner.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:39:10 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[The Oregonian and the Times-Picayune are both owned by the Newhouse family, and their websites are run by a Newhouse division. Of course their sites would be equally pathetic.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:26:22 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Has anyone at nola.com ever responded to these complaints? I'd really like to know their stance on this crap.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Red]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[yep, what Kevin said. I wrote a tribute on my nola.com blog about my friend Jaran, a young black man, who was killed last month and I got some police force kook who insisted on posting hate speech and the link to Jaran's court docket to validate his racist remarks.
        
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      <![CDATA[Nothing makes me lose my faith in humanity like reading the comments at Nola.com. I wish they would just shut the comments section down.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:27:37 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Lizzy Caston]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Oh, this isn't just a problem in Nola. You should see the horrifying commentary over at Portland's Oregonian www.oregonlive.com.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:58:48 -0500</pubDate>
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