Posted July 26, 2009 at 9:59 AM

Issues: Ethics

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/nyregion/25immig.html

After federal border agents detained several Mexican immigrants in western New York in June, an article about the incident in a local newspaper drew an onslaught of vitriolic postings on its Web site. Some were racist. Others attacked farmers in the region, an apple-growing area east of Rochester, accusing them of harboring illegal workers. Still others made personal attacks about the reporter