Excerpts From Controversial Column Pulled From Post Comments Section [View All]

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Blogger Punks the Post
Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 11:36:20 AM

http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2008/06/excerpts_from_controversial_co.php

Columnists are supposed to write provocatively -- to express themselves in ways that force readers to take notice and think. But do such scribes get more leeway than Internet surfers posting comments on newspaper websites? To find out, a blogger conducted an experiment focusing on "Full-Blooded Americans Get a Vote," a recent column by Kathleen Parker (pictured), and the Denver Post, one of many papers to publish it -- and he thinks the results show that the average person is more closely monitored than are the pros.