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Wordpress kills blog spam dead

What i really dig about wordpress is that in general, it doesn’t let blog spam accumulate in the first place (90% of my blog spam has come to my email directly asking me to approve or delete the comment in the queue), and the ones that actually make it through are easy to delete.

lovely.

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Wendy Cole

Hey Jon, just had to tack on my 2 cents to your comment on the article about the CBS forgeries, yours is here too.
re: Is Old Media Becoming Irrelevant? 9/14/2004 10:18 AM jon
excellent.
after seeing how the infamous stephen glass and jayson blair did their thing, its not difficult to believe that this sort of thing can happen.

j.

# re: Is Old Media Becoming Irrelevant? 9/14/2004 4:04 PM Wendy
Well, I've complained to the FCC and they don't seem to be up to the task of prosecuting CBS for forging government documents. They seem to think that forgery falls under the catagory of free speech protected by the first amendment. Hmmm... does this mean that identity theives are merely excercising their first amendment rights? Well, I have contacted the Department of Justice to find out their view on the matter. We'll see...