Sunday, September 28, 2008

Aren't they supposed to be neutral?

ABC News deleting anti-Obama comments. [Link]
After I posted this comment, I noticed another commenter included the same link as me. I went back to look at the reactions to both comments - and one at a time - they were both pulled from the comments. My original comment was time-stamped 7:42:49 PM - and as you can see below there is no remaining comment for that time. It was removed.
Was it too inflammatory?
And so I considered that maybe ABC News considered my statement to "edgy," or maybe they objected to the outside link. So I wrote a new, "nicer" comment, this time without a direct link.
Maybe it was because it was anti-Obama?
After having several consecutive pro-Republican comments removed, I used the same username to post a pro-Obama message. Amazingly, that message is still up after an hour-and-a-half.
Journalistic neutrality in action, as long as you agree with them.

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