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Check out the comments following today’s Herald story of the WHDH TV General Manager getting arrested at the airport. I’m routing for the GM but as the facts come out it could go either way.

But that’s not the point. The point is the needless classless bullshit called “comments” that the Boston Herald web site adds to the story.

“Hey, let’s send in comments about the person’s appearance and such. That’s even better when the story is about a woman. It hurts more. You won’t believe what you can say. And nobody knows who you are”

Real nice for a newspaper.  

This junk belongs on blog, with the name EB3 in there somewhere.

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  1. check any community newspaper online and you will read personal attacks in the comments under news stories. My fav is The Somerville News where any story is followed by comments about the subjects’ or candidates’ appearance/personal life – she’s fat, he’s a fag – aimed simply to attack a person rather then comment on a news story. The editor who monitors this “news site” representing his family business allows the personal attacks in news story comments. It’s a sad state of journalism.

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    • Should the Herald etc. adopt something like that? Or is your suggestion that newspapers just not have any comments at all on their blogs?

  2. I’m just not sure if it’s mine or EB3s.

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    p>I hereby defend the Herald comments on two grounds!

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    p>1. Informative.  Example:

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    I was a cop at Logan Airport years ago for a looong time. The average person has no idea how many nuts wind up at the airport to “visit” or are travelling. The use of “do you know who I am” is never ending. Almost every onboard incident is precipitated by drugs, alcohol, or mental health issues ( the passenger is crazy) In this instant case—I’d say Ms Klank is nuts.

    FYI— If the captain of the aircraft calls the cops while the plane is airborne the offender is charged un Chatr 90 section 24. Interfering with a flight crew. The cop has no choice. The indidvidual fingered by the crew goes to jail. This woman is lucky they didn’t call the FBI—then it would have been a felony.

    That being said, our local US Attorney is very eager to placate the local news media—future office and all that. This woman is a screwball and even if there was an indecent A&B her subsequent behavior was inappropriate and inconsistent with the offense. Guilty as charged.

    Course this will be CWOF’d for six months. (Continuue Without A Finding and dismissed in six months) But then there is the lawsuit.

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    p>2. Funny!  Example:

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    p>Comment from Austin Powers….Do I make you RANDI?  

    • new and improved EBIII.  We all convinced him/her to go back on the medication.  đŸ˜‰

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      p>Seriously, RoTR are helpful in stopping the waste of electricity on worthless commentary (as long as they are rationally applied).  Just please don’t tell Ern.  

  3. The Globe

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    drunken, obscenity-laced tirade at Logan International Airport in which she threatened to call a news crew and put a state trooper “on TV and ruin [his] life,”

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    According to the report, she was overheard by police telling medical personnel that she had had “about three dozen drinks.” Goldklank smelled of alcohol and was so intoxicated that police had difficulty booking her, the report stated. But then Goldklank’s tone shifted.

    “The defendants demeanor changed and she became quiet,” the report says. “After a few minutes she leaned toward Sergeant Luce and stated, ‘You think I’m cute and I think you’re cute, just drive me home.’ “

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    “I’m a big shot in Boston and I’ll have your [expletive] jobs,” Goldklank told the troopers, according to the report. “You think you’re a [expletive] tough guy, just you watch and see what the [expletive] happens to you when I get out of here.”

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    Goldklank defended her behavior to the Boston Herald Monday night and told the paper she was inappropriately touched by a male passenger seated beside her. There was no mention of the male passenger in the State Police report. Trooper Eric Benson, a department spokesman, said this morning that “there has been no complaint made to the State Police alleging any such improper contact.”

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