I made the mistake of looking at a Detroit thread on the Huffington Post. There are some real morons who comment over there.
I made the mistake of looking at a Detroit thread on the Huffington Post. There are some real morons who comment over there.
While trying to find what you were looking at... I came across this.....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_812934.html
It's called the internet. The comments on anything when attached to a newspaper site are just downright nasty, regardless of the subject.
I cannot read the comments on Freep.com anymore. I lose all faith in humanity.
http://www.detnews.com/article/20110...y-car-you-can’
I thought this thread was more suicide by cop.
Why why why, just one bullet to your own head.
Please give some examples.
Just because someone comments on Detroit in a negative fashion doesn't mean they don't know what they are talking about. You don't have to live there to know what's going on. What's reported in the papers and on TV is usually pretty accurate. Usually one trip into town will show you what 30 plus years of governmental incompetence and neglect will do to a once great city.
Anyone in Michigan who pays taxes has an investment in the city of Detroit whether they like it or not. The city is not self sustaining. Therefore, they have a right and really, an obligation to complain when their money is being wasted.
If any of you can make a case for Detroit as a fiscally responsible, well run, low crime place where K-12 education is the best available and city services a second to none, I for one, would like to see it.
I've read, watched and listened to much of the national and international media coverage of Detroit that has gushed forth over the past 2 1/2 years. On the whole, I think the majority has been well done, sophisticated and sympathetic to Detroit's plight. Stressing "on the whole." Some stories have been stupid and innacurate. But media coverage, whether local or out-of-town, is the least of Detroit's problems.
What you define as bashing, others would call complaining. Even if it is accurately considered bashing, most of the bashers have earned the right via their tax dollars donated to Detroit at the expense of their own communities. It is fair to say that Detroit does not earn its keep in the scheme of things.
As far as your opinion about the school system, please don't attempt to compare that POS known as DPS to anything else in the state. Thousands of future's have been stolen by the DPS administration. Everyone in the state knows how bad Detroit schools are run and we all pay for it. The damage that has been done is monumental.
Whipping out the race card [[referring to other posts) just enables the wrong doers. Wrong is wrong, regardless of race. Does anyone really want what's going on there to continue on it's current course?
I have convinced myself that the comment posters on Freep and Detnews add up to three or four guys with a lot of user IDs living in their parents' basement.
Same goes for me and the Windsor Star. Sometimes I just wish they would disable the comments section all together because people always ruin the good news. Nothing is ever good enough. Like this CS Wind/Samsung wind turbine plant coming to the city......they just crap all over it.
To its credit, the Detroit News changed it's format so that the comments are detached from the article. My local paper just recently did this for particular articles. I understand why papers still leave the comments below the articles. It gets them more clicks and thus more ad revenue, but it's not worth it in the end, if you ask me.
fubarnation, nice handle. It tells me all I need to know about you. That you're the only one trying to hedge and defend newspaper comments is proof enough that you're probably one of the more prolific trolls on the local internet. There is no excusing the vitriol that occurs online. These newspaper messageboards are a pitiful, filthy den of sexist, racist, bigoted, homophobic, religiously intolerant, etc. vipers.
AnnArbor.com has taken to heavily censoring their comment boards. The comment count was over 20 for one story but when I went to read them only two hadn't been removed by AnnArbor.com.
I guess theoretically you are right, but in practice you are so, so wrong... LOL.
I'm just curious what makes you think a disproportionate amount of state tax dollars ends up in the city? Is that just an assumption or is there some study that you have seen. I would assume if we are talking about per capita funding, rural areas would probably get the "most" funding, though I don't have any data to back that up...
It would be great if that were the case, but last time I checked posting comments on a newspaper website isn't going to change anything...