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Wash Post deletes hundreds of comments to ombudsman's blog entry, claiming comments were filled with "hate speech" - Official record says otherwise
by John in DC - 1/19/2006 06:20:00 PM
The Washington Post's embattled ombudsman, Deborah Howell, responded to critics today on the Washington Post blog. Readers posted a lot of comments in response. And at 4pm today, the Post deleted all the comments and wrote the following explanation:
As of 4:15 p.m. ET today, we have shut off comments on this blog indefinitely.... there are things that we said we would not allow, including personal attacks, the use of profanity and hate speech. Because a significant number of folks who have posted in this blog have refused to follow any of those relatively simple rules, we've decided not to allow comments for the time being.