BY FROMA HARROP INDIANAPOLIS – More speech is not necessarily a positive development. News sites’ online forums have unleashed speech in quantity, for sure. But they’ve given a stage to swarms of moronic insults and outright lies, most cloaked in anonymity or false identities. Such comments waste our time – but of larger concern, they degrade the civic culture and undermine thoughtful attempts to craft public policy. Speaking at a recent National Conference of Editorial […]

Saving Civic Culture From On-Line Mayhem
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