Rhino Times Censors Comments
July 31, 2012
As of today, John Hammer‘s article defending Trudy Wade and containing several lies remains on the website. When Roch Smith, Jr. dug up an article from 2007 in The Rhino which proved Eric Townsend is not a liar, I put the quote in a comment. It has never come out of moderation. It’s pretty bad when a paper won’t allow comments to reference its own articles.
This is consistent with the behavior of our conservative weekly, which regularly prints lies, fails to retract them and actively engages in cover ups. Needless to say, these are not the actions of respected journalists.
Jerry Bledsoe responds at Piedmont Publiass, but Roch’s not having it.
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I was just about to pull the trigger on the same complaint (my comment hasn’t appeared either), but I emailed John Hammer yesterday to ask what’s going on. His reply this morning:
“This is the first I’ve heard of it. I’ll look into it and see what’s going on.”
He’s dissembling. An innocuous comment from Bill Wright got through.
You are right. I hadn’t seen that. Still, it might be the doings of an underling.