What will you do when (not if) it happens to you?
From the West Coast to the East, the old media (read Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle) and new media (cyberbullying and worse) wrestle with readers’ comments that are far worse than simply stupid.
People on the Washington Post's internal critique board, are clearly “pretty upset.” For example, Tom Lachman asks, "does the post want to be a forum for racist screeds?"
The Law of the Lowest Denominator
There’s no clear answer yet anyone who chooses to offer an opinion or is the subject of others’ views will face this New Normal gauntlet of strangers’ negative comments – visible to the world.
While we fight forour eroding freedom of speech in the U.S. and others fight to get it, each one of us will be seeking models of behavior on how to react when it happens to us or to someone we know.
