I am disappointed to see that a comment I left this morning on the New York Times article about dfp-supporting politicians and "devil terms" has still not made it online. Humph.
My comment more or less repeated a paragraph of the post I wrote this morning, pointing out that Mary Miller (IL-15), with whom the article begins and ends, refuses to answer not only questions from the Times but also questions from local media and letters from constituents. I then described the content of my most recent letter to Miller, which encouraged her to watch the Ken Burns documentary series The U.S. and the Holocaust and asked whether she still believes that “Hitler was right on one thing.”
My only guess is that my quoting Miller's words — “Hitler was right on one thing” — got my comment tossed. Perhaps comments are screened by filter for certain words and names? I wish I knew.
Sunday, October 23, 2022
What’d I do, NYT?
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This happened to me a couple of times recently, and I don't think it was because the comments were snarky or inappropriate. They just never showed, and I never got any message either way.
I hope, anyway, that it's a bug in the system. The more true things one can say about folks like MM, the better.
(On an unrelated note, Captcha reminds me that I finished my 12th Sunday NYT puzzle in a row yesterday. "I'm Not a Robot" was one of the long answers.)
This time I didn’t even get the e-mail saying that they’d tell me when the comment went on. It might be a fluke. But I think they must have filters that check for certain words, just as the NYT Spelling Bee doesn’t recognize some words.
Congrats on the puzzle(s)!
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