Dec 27, 2009

Gutter History


     Let me recommend another Birmingham News story today, the one about a new Birmingham-Jefferson History Museum downtown.
     I know about the project because, as a favor, I had been trying, without success, to locate an old Hollywood film related to the city/county that would have been used in a display.
     The real reason to read the story is to see how quickly the "reader comments" following the story get into the gutter. Amazing.
     The newly hired Executive Director may learn all he needs to know about his new city by reading them. And I thought the Birmingham News was going to control that crap!
     I might suggest the new facility forgo any guest comment book.

1 comment:

  1. Not surprised about the gutter comments. The same thing exists on our very own local paper's forum. Sometimes worse.

    That's why two years ago, a bunch of us started up the "Talk Montgomery" blogsite.

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