By Frank Barnako, MarketWatch
Last Update: 1:07 PM ET Jan 20, 2006
Editors at the Washington Post (WPO) are inviting "thoughtful feedback" about how to manage online comments to its Web logs.
Jim Brady, the executive editor, explained that the option for comments on Post.blog, dedicated to sharing news by and about the Post, have been turned off. He said as many as 200 messages containing profanity, threats or hate speech piled in after a blog column was published about the financial dealings of Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist. Editors could not keep the board clean, according to Brady.
"We're not giving up on the concept of having a healthy public dialogue with our readers. But we need to think more carefully about how we do it," he said.
A similar problem with readers' responses sank an effort by the Los Angeles Times' (TRB) to invite critiques and comments on its editorials online.
The Post's problem this week followed other articles about the freedom being found by the newspaper's columnists who are writing online, including Marc Fisher and Joel Achenbach. Comments are still open on their blogs.
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