For the first time in months, we checked out comments on LancasterOnline.com.
We were surprised and offended to see some gratuitous personal attacks on the newly appointed dean at the Pennsylvania Academy of Music.
Since all comments are screened for propriety (but not for substance) at NewsLanc.com, such comments would not be posted or the offensive material edited out, perhaps as ….
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The tone of many of the comments on LancasterOnline is regrettable, but I wouldn’t want every comment to have to be approved. That would be much less democratic. I know for a fact that NewsLanc sometimes censors comments merely because the editor apparently disagrees with the point of view expressed.