As many of you are aware, Fox News Channel's writeup about the death of Whitney Houston attracted a slew of ugly, racist comments (diaried here by MinistryofTruth). Well, as of this afternoon, the comments thread is completely gone.
As far as I'm concerned, this is a classic case of closing the barn door after the horse escaped. There is no way, no how, Fox should have allowed this to go on for as long as it did. In my mind, this is at least as bad, if not worse, than the "Fair and Balanced" network's voluminous instances of bias toward wingnuttery.
To my mind, the only decent thing Fox can do to make up for this is to make an on-air apology to Whitney's family. Tell Fox to do the right thing and apologize.