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The Washington Post Decides to Close Blog, Citing Vitriol

January 20, 2006 /

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The Washington Post shut one of its blogs yesterday, saying it had drawn too many personal attacks, profanity and hate mail directed at the paper’s ombudsman.

The closing was the second by a major newspaper in recent months. An experiment in allowing the public to edit editorials in The Los Angeles Times lasted just two days in June before it was shut because pornographic material was being posted on the site.

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/20/business/media/20blog.html