tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626610279159340013.post8109809397305478147..comments2024-01-21T05:17:46.958-05:00Comments on The Partial View: Get your Schmutz right here!Tomim Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09358985107505490625noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626610279159340013.post-66269152780203971442013-10-24T16:40:28.822-04:002013-10-24T16:40:28.822-04:00Rav Elya Brudny is the RY of YWN editorRav Elya Brudny is the RY of YWN editorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626610279159340013.post-19531663512038499642013-10-24T12:37:40.051-04:002013-10-24T12:37:40.051-04:00Look at the recent comments regarding the Rav Shte...Look at the recent comments regarding the Rav Shteinman attack. Mamish outright bashing of gedolim and YWN allows all these comments through. Can someone please take this to some Rabbanim in Flatbush or Lakewood who can make a raash about this? Somebody must stop them because they are becoming like VIN. They think they are better because they don't put every shmutz story but they are still just as bad because their comments are almost the caliber of VIN. Being better then outright shkotzim doesn't make you good. Shuanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626610279159340013.post-73497877385036351332013-10-20T07:55:06.101-04:002013-10-20T07:55:06.101-04:00The frum news websites are for-profit. They need ...The frum news websites are for-profit. They need to pay the writers and aggregators, hence they need "hits". The more hits, the more they can charge for advertising. Hence they allow comments which are questionable or outright LH, depending on which website.<br /><br />The solution may be a "Chessed Shehl Emmes". Perhaps a philanthropist can fund a frum news website that will only deliver news, with no need for all the "coffee room" gimicks to gain readership.SoMeHoW Frumhttp://somehowfrum.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626610279159340013.post-15019529287202448592013-10-19T22:58:43.167-04:002013-10-19T22:58:43.167-04:00The underlying problem is
how can you have "r...The underlying problem is<br />how can you have "responsible frum websites" when the rabbinic leadership is in total denial of the internet as a legitimate source of communication and news? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626610279159340013.post-87250686544463091462013-10-18T17:11:32.865-04:002013-10-18T17:11:32.865-04:00IMO, there's far too much censorship in the fr...IMO, there's far too much censorship in the frum world these days.<br /><br />It's not like the people who control the main media outlets are motivated by just hilchos lashon hara. They are motivated primarily by the desire to present a very specific version of the Torah, the world, and history, and if there are facts out there which might undermine that view, then those facts need to be supressed.<br /><br />And the problem is that everyone knows this. Very few people - other than the most simpleminded - genuinely believe that they are getting an accurate picture of the world from these publications. But there are issues that people are not familiar with, and this is where these publications can do their damage.<br /><br />I remember once reading an article in one of these frum publications - I forgot which - about a certain mesivta. And this article stated outright that this mesivta, after opening, had quickly gained a reputation as one of the top mesivtas around etc. etc. And what was interesting about that was that everyone knew that this mesivta had never "made it" and was always struggling. And more than that, I had a friend who was a magid shiur in this mosad who had told me the same thing, and said he would probably be out of a job shortly because he expected the place to fold (which it did not long afterwords).<br /><br />But the significant thing about it was that it was so unsurprising. It just seemed so normal and SOP. And I remember thinking at the time: imagine if I read in the New York Times that such-and-such school was one of the premier schools out there, and reading in a frum publication something along the same lines. Which would I take more seriously? Which report would carry more weight?<br /><br />Ukidai bizayon vikatzef ...Fotheringay-Phippsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626610279159340013.post-34981549013710775772013-10-18T15:28:23.838-04:002013-10-18T15:28:23.838-04:00So are we all better off not knowing that some of ...So are we all better off not knowing that some of our brethren are dragging God's name thru the mud by kidnapping and torturing and extorting fellow Jews?The Bald Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06989601722428444663noreply@blogger.com