CDA Press Asleep At Online Switch

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  Joker on March 17 at 3:59 p.m.

  It’s hard to keep on eye on those things when you’re busy writing about Rachael Ray’s praising of the area.

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  PatrickH on March 17 at 4:06 p.m.

  To some extent I don’t think the Press cares about these kind of things. I’ve caught multiple racist comments aimed at members of the Jewish faith and the response I got from Press staff including Mr. Patrick was that it wasn’t like people take what is on there seriously.

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  Dennis on March 17 at 4:07 p.m.

  When the SPLC published it’s list of “Hate Organizations” nation wide, They missed one,,,,,,,,,,,,,, The CDA Press.

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  Sisyphus on March 17 at 4:14 p.m.

  I’d love to help with this problem but I’m stuck here in southern Idaho.

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  PatrickH on March 17 at 4:17 p.m.

  Its kind of frightening to me how often the post are published and how long it takes them to pull them. Part of me honestly believes that the Press lets them sit on there for awhile to create conflict and drive traffic to their site.

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  OrangeTV on March 17 at 4:19 p.m.

  Ugh. Those Press message boards must be an eternal headache for folks like the Chamber of Commerce or anyone else who’d prefer to reflect a positive image of our town to the world at large. The comments there are the lowest of the low and do absolutely no favors for our image. They’re a loudmouth, lewd, uneducated handful of basement lurkers who represent the views of a wee tiny fraction of local residents in reality. It’s mortifying and it needs to stop.

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  toadman on March 17 at 4:22 p.m.

  Perhaps they left the link on purpose? Perhaps it expresses the general view of the paper?

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  cantyoureadthesigns on March 17 at 4:27 p.m.

  I read several of the Press stories that DFO linked to earlier this morning.

  I noticed that somebody commented the HRC people were misguided and “a bunch of homosexuals” Looks like that comment is gone now, but anyway, yeah, in general, the comments were pretty wild.

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  Sam on March 17 at 4:34 p.m.

  Kind of in their defense, they’re probably pretty darn busy over there with limited staff.

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  cantyoureadthesigns on March 17 at 4:35 p.m.

  BTW, I’ll allow for the (remote) possibility that commenter freedom for all was accusing Idaho folks, in general, to be racist, like in the video.

  Also, don’t call this a YouTube… it’s not. YouTube would pull that down immediately.

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  PatrickH on March 17 at 4:36 p.m.

  Dave,

  In fairness to Google/YouTube this video is not hosted by them. Wntube seems to be a site specializing in this garbage.

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  PatrickH on March 17 at 4:38 p.m.

  Sam,

  Not really an excuse the Press asked for moderators from the public to police the site, and if they are unable to police it to even make sure this kind of garbage doesn’t appear then they should pull the ability to comment until they can.

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  Sam on March 17 at 4:42 p.m.

  It’s not YouTube, by the way. It’s WNTube.net. Looks like a white supremacist version of YouTube. Never knew it existed until I followed Dave’s link.

  The racist song they have reminds of the music they listen to in the film “American History X,” which if you haven’t seen, you most definitely should.

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  PatrickH on March 17 at 4:49 p.m.

  The Press just pulled the comment down.

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  Sam on March 17 at 4:50 p.m.

  Sounds like they read HBO more often than they read their own comments.

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  hmoffsuite on March 17 at 4:58 p.m.

  I think the Press should monitor the site like DFO does. If they can’t do that, they should abandon the site, imo. Seems they really don’t understand the internet very well, yet.

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  Cindy_H on March 17 at 5:08 p.m.

  It’s gone, now.

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  Dennis on March 17 at 6:41 p.m.

  The cda Mess has lost all control. The moron that posted that racist video is posting it under different names on multiple comment sections as fast as the moderators can delete it.

  Patrick really needs to pull the plug and kkep it that way until he figures it out.

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  PatrickH on March 17 at 7:06 p.m.

  It is now up again in five different places on the Press’ website. It really is time for the Press to either moderate all comments and approve them before posting them or turn of posting all together. The Press uses a publishing suite called Town News for their site that is basically a high end version of the blogging tool Movable Type. All it would take to change the comment settings to either turn them off or make it so they had to be approved is changing the preferences in the software. So either Mr. Patrick and the Hagadone News Network are to lazy to do it or they like the attention that it brings.

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  Arch_Druid on March 18 at 7:48 a.m.

  My 2 cents, they like all the fringe lunacy that such commentary incites.

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  MamaJD on March 18 at 8:19 a.m.

  If there were a business in town that provided a community bulletin board in which racist material kept appearing, we would ask the manager why. If that manager shrugged his shoulders and stated, “What can we do? These racists have a right to free speech,” my response would be, “Yes, there is a right to free speech but you don’t have to be the one to provide the bulletin board.”

  The Press is a commercial enterprise. They offer services and advertisements for a fee. The Press has enough staff that take down anything anti-Hagadone or anti-Souza within minutes and the Press has a track record of doing so. So why aren’t they just as vigilant about racist material that uses the N-Word? In the 80’s, this would have been a rallying cry for some over a business that tolerates such hateful views. And that is exactly what the Press is doing: Tolerating. This is not okay with me. I for one would like to see pillars of our community and the Human Rights Task Force go to The Press to (AGAIN) vocalize concerns about the appearance that they tolerate racist views.

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