Acum ceva vreme scriam despre înjurăturile pe care și le iau jurnaliștii în secțiunea de comentarii. Jonathan Wilson scrie și el despre asta în unul din cele mai bune articole pe care le-am citit anul ăsta:
If a reader disagrees with an opinion or an interpretation and argues his case, valuable syntheses can result; too oft en, though, the response becomes an attack directed directly at the author rather than the argument.
Journalists are now expected to walk a gauntlet of abuse as an everyday part of their job. It’s all very bizarre – no accountant or shopassistant or street-sweeper or solicitor is expected to go about their business receiving constant messages telling them they’re a useless prick who is biased/knows nothing/is fraudulently drawing a salary.