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Michael Foot: Telegraph respectful, web commenters still vile.

Submitted by Anthony Zacharzewski on 3 March 2010 - 2:15pm

Every day I wonder why newspapers bother to put comment boxes under articles. Here's an example of why they should be turned off.

The press have been suitably respectful about the late Michael Foot, who was unchallengeably a great intellectual and parliamentarian, even if he wasn't cut out to lead a fractious party into the age of Thatcherism.

And yet on the Telegraph website, there is a comment box, and it has been colonised by vicious, bile-filled nonentities, spewing petty sarcasm and stupid jokes.

Two examples.

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