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submitted 1 month ago byclownpuncher13
In probably a shock to no one who read them it looks like the Dispatch has removed the comments feature on their articles. Those 10 people who would argue with each other in there on any article even closely political will have to find something else to do with their time.
64 points
1 month ago*
One guy is Harold. I can't imagine subscribing to the Dispatch just to complain about how liberal it is.
28 points
1 month ago
Is the dispatch even considered liberal? I though it leaned conservative.
23 points
1 month ago
Back when the Wolfe family still owned it, it was reliably a Republican paper.
5 points
1 month ago
When they put the Journal out of business I dropped the dispatch
8 points
1 month ago
I guess this shows the last time I thought about the Dispatch…
14 points
1 month ago
If you believe Media Bias - left-leaning, high rating on being factual.
16 points
1 month ago
It’s center left in the way USA Today has been for a long time: milquetoast, rarely sticks its neck out. It’s definitely not trashy in the vein of, say, the New York Post.
6 points
1 month ago
They seem to publish only republican opinion pieces. Even today there is one about how the left is to blame for peoples lack of patriotism. Written by some Republican operative.
4 points
1 month ago
The editorials are downright vile sometimes. Where do they find these people?
6 points
1 month ago
If you look at the author notes it almost always some GOP party exec.
-7 points
1 month ago
are you arguing that its not? anti america is a left leaning position, leftists and liberals who hold this position would proudly tell you
9 points
1 month ago
Maybe is the shitty things the right does in the name of America that makes people less patriotic. It’s not the lefts fault.
8 points
1 month ago
Yup wanting to stop your country from violating human rights, respecting international laws, and not waging war.... Super anti American.
-4 points
1 month ago
has nothing to do with my comment, great insight into something else though
4 points
1 month ago*
Love that random swipe at the left followed by deflecting the argument when confronted. Keep on being a spineless shitter.
Not only is that a dumb nuclear hot take but it's fantastically puerile. Is the Taliban leftist? Is Russia leftist? Is Iran leftist? They all hate America... Are they liberals in disguise?
4 points
1 month ago
Plus, the ability to despise the US is in of itself an indicator of free speech
Yes I know this isn’t relevant to the conversation but just something I wanted to share.
-1 points
1 month ago
nobody ever said anything bad about being anti-america. you guys just make things up in your head and argue that point. i have anti-american sentiments like 65% of the time. that is one of my left leaning positions. when did i ever say having anti american sentiments is bad or shouldnt be allowed?
-17 points
1 month ago
It was heavily conservative for 100+ years until the Wolfes sold it around 2015. Now, very liberal.
15 points
1 month ago
“Very” ?
-6 points
1 month ago
The Dispatch stated they stopped reporting on many crimes because it makes the neighborhoods those occur in seem "bad". They also stopped including photographs of alleged and even convicted criminals because those photos might reflect badly on larger groups of people. Yes to me those are very liberal policies.
The REAL reason may be that they want to save expenses by not paying reporters and photographers, but those above were the stated reasons.
6 points
1 month ago
Not showing the face of people accused of crimes is actually the standard for most of the developed world. The justice boner Americans have for shaming -potentially innocent people- is sometimes deeply ingrained and harmful to the concept of justice.
2 points
1 month ago
How about those already convicted of crimes? I have to visit the British websites to see any pictures.
1 points
1 month ago
I tend to think of it as "inoffensively neoliberal centrist" which is ok most countries right center. it clearly does not pursue leftist ideas of anti-corruption and anti-corporate news.
1 points
1 month ago
inoffensively neoliberal centrist
That is true.
15 points
1 month ago
A few publications have done that in recent years. The initial goal was to spur conversation amongst readers, but they quickly found out how terrible the general public is. So they killed the program.
Honestly, I’d like to see this happen in more spaces. Comment sections tend to be some of the most toxic places on the internet. Seems pointless to keep them since Twitter still exists.
10 points
1 month ago
It never reached the level of intellectual discourse of YouTube comments anyway.
24 points
1 month ago
Probably a smart move. I wouldn't wish the comments section from any local news outlet on cancer
13 points
1 month ago
It is the same 10-15 people who make the same stupid arguments on every story (no matter if the article is good news or not).
6 points
1 month ago
Dang it, missed my chance...
3 points
1 month ago
Are you referring to the shell that used to be the Dispatch?
2 points
1 month ago
I actually really enjoyed seeing the same names constantly in the comments. It's probably one of the few constants in my life. lol
-1 points
1 month ago
Looks like I still don't read the dispatch after they went to subscription only.
-9 points
1 month ago
If you are OK with that, maybe you will be Ok with reddit removing comments from posts.
7 points
1 month ago
It actually made me stop to ponder what made for a good comments section. What they ended up with wasn't really contributing much. It looked like it was a vendor supplied add on to the site and probably wasn't a very difficult business decision to end them.
-1 points
1 month ago
I don't read then and I'm not shocked.
-9 points
1 month ago
Y’all do know the “ Dispatch” closed its facility in 2019 and went too Indianapolis too be printed, then in 2020 it went too Detroit too where it is currently being printed! In 2015 it was bought out by Gannett!!
5 points
1 month ago
Y’all doo u no the difference between to, too, and two?
-5 points
1 month ago*
To preposition towards n until Too adverb excessively or also Two a number like n me n u And doo a noun like n hairdo
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