Dear Yahoo: Stop Already With Exploiting Racial Divisiveness And Hatred!
Yeah! You.
I've been a Yahoo user for over 15 years.
I've been a print journalist, reporter, editor, and manager for over 32 years.
Almost invariably, the "news" stories that you post and feature are blatantly and obviously deliberately crafted to upset and anger everyone who is exposed to them. This is made exponentially more clear and obvious in the extreme vitriol of the comments from readers.
I am certainly aware - painfully so - that you are a business and your goal is to make profit. Got that. But! What are you willing to do to get your profit? You most assuredly present yourselves as a source of "news," and actively promote the pretense of being "journalists." You also are most absolutely NOT journalists. The concept of objectively reporting facts is so distant from any even hint of professional ethics you might hold as to be of another very distant universe.
It seems obvious to even the most obtuse reader of your "news" items that you will certainly sacrifice any journalistic ethic or standard, and - in fact - are willing to actively and knowingly contribute to the destruction of civilized society.
You're not about communication. You're about destruction.
A question for you: If you help incite, inflame, and literally build the hatred and total lack of real communication among "civilized" beings and thereby significantly contribute to the collapse of society and culture ... what good will be all the "profit" in the world?
Is my view more extreme than you normally get?
Perhaps.
Is it correct.
Probably.
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martin commented
ditto; I read previous comments and wonder why Yahoo does not respond and change.
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JS commented
Clearly Yahoo has sold out for clicks. Their news is NOT news, they have manufactured headlines and promote divisiveness. One quick glimpse at Reuters and one can see how far the clowns who run the editorials at Yahoo have fallen. Sooooo disappointed in what once was my homepage and preferred search engine. I'm kinda hoping Google kicks their ares
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Diane Petersen commented
Your Bias against MY President is blatant !! I am tired of it and am looking for another email option if you don't STOP. Report ALL the news, fairly.
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SKY BISCUIT commented
Alakazam hits it out of the park. My sentiments exactly. I have to add the stream of celebrity pictures on my home page is obscene.
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Fuck You commented
This site and all of its "journalists" can go get ******. Dividing this nation for the sake of click bait articles. This will get deleted but at least some Dipshit will have to read it first.
I hope you love your temporary job as a propaganda pusher, this site will fall and good luck getting another job after that. This site is all that is wrong in this world and all of its employees are as well.
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Anonymous commented
You would think the staff of Yahoo would be ashamed of the some of the things they try to pass off as news. Nah, they have no soul.
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Anonymous commented
I can see why Yahoo is going out of business slowly. Yahoo news has a liberal bias, and will post any news story which try to prove white people are racists, and all black people are victims. It gets very old, quickly. Yahoo will become extinct as whites are reluctantly forced to move to a new web home where they feel that they not always under attack. Try to be a comfortable web provider , instead of a confrontational finger-pointer Yahoo!
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heyralph commented
Because they do not care.....plain and simple....
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Anonymous commented
Alakazam's comments are on mark. Why isn't the editorial staff taking action to address the shortcomings.
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fhosdh commented
I see anon is a certified racist.......Whites huh? Grow up....if you can.
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[Deleted User] commented
TOO MUUCCHHH HUFFF POSSTT!!!! Every third article seems a little much for somebody who has never in their lives ever clicked on a Huff Post article link. However, you people are correct. I've seen yahoo's feedback team erase about a million complaints about this exact issue and send everybody an email that claimed the issue was "resolved" yet nothing changed, and that was a couple years ago. I'm switching to google news tonight.
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Tom Tom commented
I switched my homepage to GOOGLE to avoid yahoo's anti-US Propaganda.
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Anonymous commented
Yes, racism works so much better when it's kept hidden. Pfftttt...... That's only true for WHITES.
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Anonymous commented
These same complaints are 2 years old folks and nothing is done about it. They don't care. Time to change your homepage. I suggest Google New because you choose WHAT NEWS PROVIDERS YOU WANT. How about that? A choice. Don't delay. You should have a smile when you log on instead of seeing offensive material
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Anonymous commented
This has been the #1 complaint on here for YEARS!! Yahoo doesn't care! They only thing these rich cats understand is their bottom line. It's time to leave! I tried google news today and disovered I was smiling reading their articles. Best thing? YOU CHOOSE WHAT TO READ!! Leave yahoo today. Sooner the better!
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Stephanie commented
People need to realize that we are all Human beings, race should play no card in our "modern" society. We have our own beliefs, our own traditions, our own views. Why can people not see this instead of a race division?
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Anonymous commented
I agree all news articles on my page seem to be about minorities committing crimes when an intelligent adult knows all crime is committed equally among all races. I feel as though yahoo is promoting racism. You scroll down to leave a heartfelt message about a child who has been killed and all people can focus on is the color of someone's skin and make mean hateful remarks about the child's death as though he/she is not a human being. The same people spamming the page over and over with horrible messages of hate and these type of things are committed by only this type of group. the yahoo commenters are the worse one's.
Yahoo needs to start to promote all news equally or I am going to stop using Yahoo all together. I can go to any other news site and get a vast selection of news that's up-to-date and not the same one sided it's only done by these people article over and over again.
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Anonymous commented
I agree...A white police officer......Garbage yahoo/
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Ami Mosher commented
I so agree! You choose NOW to write this story??? When there is a terrible tension about race relations? I think this is irresponsible journalism. The headline itself is meant to stir things up. If this happened, why didn't they tell the story when Katrina happened or in the last 10 years since? Why NOW when there is so much tension? I hate media that feels the need to stir things up while claiming "people have the right to know". If people have the right to know, and it really is a story about racism and not just a bunch of scared people after a tragedy, why didn't you report it 10 years ago? I'm quite sure horrible things happened during Katrina to both black and white families. And people also came together and acted like hero's. BOTH black and white. Write about THAT Mr. Rivlin. Disgusts me.
http://news.yahoo.com/escape-from-new-orleans--as-waters-rose--a-white-suburb-across-the-mississippi-closed-a-key-bridge-to-fleeing-residents-215830472.html?bcmt=1440718027642-9d4e2c6e-2fd2-4c9f-a654-929d80350180&bcmt_s=u#mediacommentsugc_container -
S.D commented
Agreed.... I'm so tired of hate filled news stories with the obvious intent to promote a greater racial divide. Enough is enough.
S.D.