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November 6, 2007

New York Times Warns Its Readers That They Are "Coarse, Bullying and Misinformed"

Posted by Dave Blount at November 6, 2007 7:05 AM

In a belated attempt to join the 21st century before going bankrupt, the New York Times is taking self-described "baby steps" toward allowing reader interactivity. But Public Editor Clark Hoyt warns it might be rough terrain:

As The New York Times transforms itself into a multimedia news and information platform — the printed newspaper plus a robust nytimes.com offering breaking news, blogs, interactive graphics, video and more — it is struggling with a vexing problem. How does the august Times, which has long stood for dignified authority, come to terms with the fractious, democratic culture of the Internet, where readers expect to participate but sometimes do so in coarse, bullying and misinformed ways?

As NewsBusters points out, the Gray Hag's readership is 90–95% liberal. Yes, I would agree that this demographic can be coarse and bullying, and if they've been reading the Times, they are definitely misinformed.

Not to worry though — the paper has just hired some part-time staffers to censor unacceptable comments like one from "Ray in Mexican Colony of LA," who suggested the Times

have all the displaced ILLEGALS from the FIRES Move into the TIMES NYC HQ Building … and let them urinate in the halls like they do infront [sic] of most every Home Depot in all the rest of the USA.

Good thing they have their censors to make sure the 5–10% of Times readers who aren't Kool-Aid–chugging liberals are kept in line.

On a tip from Cheetah.