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April 13, 2007 7:30 AM PDT

Coop's Corner Podcast: Imus isn't alone

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Bad manners are so widespread online that it's no longer news. But what to do about any of that is the new $64,000 question.

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Radio shock jock Don Imus lost his job at CBS this week for uttering his now-infamous remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team on the air. But the predictable morality play surrounding his demise leads to another issue.

Comments along the same line show up all the time in cyberspace. In our e-mail-addicted age, online bad manners are so widespread that it's hardly news anymore. One can argue that the phenomenon is additional evidence of Western civilization going to the dogs. But that's too easy and evades the issue.

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