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Paul Fanlund: Do ugly online reader comments really matter?

Most professors who had just co-written an op-ed column on their research for The New York Times might choose to dwell on that accomplishment, but not Dominique Brossard.Instead, my conversation with Brossard last week was more focused on some humorous, spot-on commentary from a Milwaukee entertainment website affiliated with The Onion. The headline read: ?Awful online comments hurt understanding of news, reports local news site filled with awful online comments.?