barbara k.

I wrote the first blogging thread when Senator Tom Cotton advised activating the military and "taking no quarter." the blog was written very shortly after the NYT first published the article. DU "froze" my thread because they said that the story was an "opinion" and was not "newsworthy" enough for their "late breaking news" category. I feel that that is an insane response because when a national leader writes an op-ed, it is not the same as when David Brooks, Jennifer Rubin, etc. produce their op-eds because the national leaders words are based on what they are pushing thru as legislation (ex-Pelosi and HR-1) and dramatically affect ALL of our lives in a very direct way. DU is also very inconsistent in whose blogs are frozen... for example, a lot of bloggers are still submitting their opinion only, with NO media references & nothing is done... i had been attracted to it as a liberal source of the news but their rules are insane, inconsistently enforced, abusive... have religiously followed Wapo, NYT for years &, if you want libersl, add the Daily Kos, not DU...