July 01, 2008

NewsHounds edits comments without notice

NewsHounds is a bargain-basement "liberal" site whose tagline is "We watch FOX so you don't have to": their contributors watch that network and then write up reports. No less than two comments I left on the thread "Ingraham criticizes Washington Post for report, but fails to disprove it" by contributor "Chrish" [1] were edited without notice. Which is pretty rich coming from a site that in the past has offered posts like "Bill O'Reilly cuts mic of US Colonel Ann Wright as she defends her service and stance" and "Jane Hall Gets Mic Cut For Exposing BOR's Hypocrisy" [2]. I guess cutting someone off is OK if News Hounds does it.

The first comment I left was this:
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Obviously, Ingraham doesn't read my blog!

Because, if she did, she would have been able to point out how the WaPo author is lying.
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The change they made was to remove the link. My name's link was left in place, but by removing the link in the text, they reduced my comment to a statement that could be construed as just a simply reflexive disagreement instead of someone offering proof of the author lying. Note also that their commenting system is Javascript, meaning there's no search engine benefit to leaving links there.

After noticing that they'd edited my comment without notice, I left the original comment with a preface:
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Apparently there was some sort of odd technical problem, because the link to my proof that the author is lying is now missing from my earlier comment.

Here's the comment as it was before:
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The original comment followed the above. NewsHounds edited the last comment to be just the single sentence "Apparently there was some sort of odd technical problem".

For more fun, I'm going to leave another comment with a link to this post.

The depths some bloggers are willing to go to prevent their readers from being exposed to the truth would be funny, except little Stalinists aren't really that funny at all.

[1] newshounds.us/2008/06/30/
ingraham_criticizes_washington_post_for_report_but_fails_to_disprove_it.php
[2] site:newshounds.us cut off microphone

Posted to Bloggage at July 1, 2008 10:17 PM