June 11, 2011
OTM Sum Up: Comments on Comments

Sum Up: Online commenters are idiots. Don’t they know that it’s their job to listen to us, not our job to listen to them?

Back when it aired, this story inspired me to post a thoughtful response and a list of suggestions for how to improve online comments. Three years later, nothing’s changed.

“You’re old enough, and I’m old enough, that you were very comfortable with the one-way communication. And I hear you say this, and I feel like you are anti-democratic. You are a royalist. You are upset with democracy itself.” -Ira Glass to Bob Garfield

(Source: onthemedia.org)

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