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Closing the Mississippi; Bigfoot found?; The Procter & Gamble story
Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008, at 11:19 AM<< Previous | Read comments | Respond | Email link | Next >>
Some big news out today about the Mississippi River: where we had floods not long ago, we now have a hazardous low-water situation that has closed the river near Winfield, a town that was devastated by the recent flooding.
We received a news release from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that said the river has been closed. Thanks to the recent flooding, a large amount of sediment has built up in the river, and as the river fell, that sediment was left behind. The situation led to tows grounding on the river bottom. Dredging on the river should start Friday. Look for an Associated Press story with more information on the closure soon. Has Bigfoot been found? The big news today across the Internet is that some hunters may have found the elusive Bigfoot. The key word in that sentence is "may." Two men in Georgia claim to have found the creature's corpse, and one of them is a police officer. Can he be trusted, or is this a hoax? This story shows you the photo of the alleged corpse. The Web site that pictures of the corpse were first posted on, SearchingForBigfoot.com, apparently crashed this morning because it couldn't handle the load. I tried to get on the site and got the error message millions of others have gotten. Given that his Bigfoot was found in Georgia, it kind of reminds me a bit of Hogzilla, if you remember that story. Some Bigfoot humor
The Procter & Gamble story Every now and then, people just get way out of hand on our Web site. That happened yesterday with a story that detailed complaints with the Missouri Human Rights Commission about nooses being put on display at Procter & Gamble's local plant. The situation is still under investigation, so it's unclear who put the nooses out, and for what purpose. I didn't see the actual offensive posts on this story for myself, but I've heard we had some racist remarks on there, and some people were getting into the personal lives of plant employees. Neither is welcome on our Web site. So we pulled the story. It's back up now, but with the offensive comments gone. We'll continue to monitor the story to make sure people aren't again abusing the privelege of posting comments on our site. I'd ask you, if you see offensive remarks on any story, to please let me know. You can email me at msanders@semissourian.com. Please include the time of the post and the name of the person who posted it. No blogging for a few days After today you won't see new blog posts from me for a few days. I'm headed out to Louisville to catch a concert by the band My Morning Jacket. I'll return Monday. Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] |
Matt Sanders, former arts and entertainment editor and reporter for the Southeast Missourian, was appointed editor of the paper's online operation in 2008. In his blog Extra Edition, he gives readers an extra dose of news they won't find in our print edition or elsewhere on our Web site, and gives them a glimpse of the operation of the new seMissourian.com.
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Mr Sanders
If you did not see offensive posts yourself, why do you make a decision to shut it down?
To BABE:
Others in our company did see them, including our publisher. The decision was not mine alone, it was a group decision.
I wish that instead of pulling the entire story and all responses that the powers that be would have just pulled the offensive posts. It might have taken a bit more time, but there were quite a few inoffensive posts in which interesting points were made. Unfortunately, what could have been a good discussion was removed because of a few posters who went out of their way to be offensive.
This has happened before, and I wonder if there are posters who see things in a discussion that they don't want discussed, so they deliberately post in such a manner as to get an entire thread pulled. If so, they got what they wanted.