volkfolk
3/17/2011 1:41:00 PM
On Mar 17, 12:03 am, Neil X <nei...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Mar 15, 7:03 pm, volkfolk <volkfo...@verizon.net> wrote:
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> > On Mar 15, 6:34 pm, Neil X <nei...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > On Mar 15, 6:15 pm, the felonious kidd <bob_a...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > On Mar 14, 3:55 pm, "sweetbac" <sweet...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> > > > > Some real jagoffs posting to the SF Chronicle
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> > > > Some real jagoffs posting to the <insert news website or blog name
> > > > here>
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> > > > I take a glance at reader comments once in a while, when I get to
> > > > feeling too optimistic about the future of mankind. It brings me right
> > > > back the reality that there are far too few Darwin awards being handed
> > > > out.
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> > > The more liberal the newspaper, the more voracious that right wing
> > > commenters are. It's weird. If you read the comments section at the
> > > Boston Globe, the frothing right wing rhetoric is way, way more over
> > > the top than you see if you read the comments section at Rupert
> > > Murdoch's Boston Herald.
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> > > Peace,
> > > Neil X.
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> > Murdoch hasn't owned the Herald since 1994. He was forced to sell it
> > when he bought Channel 25
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> It is indeed 17 years since the Herald was officially part of
> Newscorp, but their ideological bent has never varied an iota. My
> point stands, despite the factual inaccuracy you highlight.
>
> Peace,
> Neil X.
No argument there. I was just pointing out that it's no longer owned
by Murdoch. I like Marjorie Egan though. She's the only columnist at
the Herald who has any clue at all. I like her on the radio and on
Emily Rooney's show on GBH as well
Scot