The local daily paper, The Belfast Telegraph, recently published this non-story on their website. I chose to leave the first comment. They chose not to publish. I resubmitted the following, this time copying it as a record, two other comments now showing. I don’t see the problem.
“Most people would think a single mother getting pregnant to her ex on a one night stand would be a pretty irresponsible thing to do.
The article describes her “ordeal” (though this may be the journalist’s words and not her’s). Most single mothers I know have managed to find a solution to this sort of circumstance.
It’s called work.”
Update, they finally published the first comment 15 hours after it was submitted. Perhaps moderating comments in chronological order is more difficult than you would imagine.
Another update, they’ve only gone and made an even shitier article from this apparent “news”. Let’s see how long/if they publish my latest comment.

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