In keeping with the comedic nature of the video, The A.V Club commented on the efforts of Ryckert and Gerstmann during the competition by quoting the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy's We choose to go to the Moon speech, saying "[We do these things] not because they are easy, but because they are hard".
He refused to comment in-depth about the increase in government troops patrolling the city at night beyond commenting that "the efforts were ongoing".
A spokesman for AOL Time Warner refused to comment on the efforts of the buyout firms, which were reported in Newsweek magazine, in the issue that reaches newsstands today.
Barbara Thompson, a spokesman for the Manhattan district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, declined to comment on the efforts, other than to say that investigators had "already obtained a great deal of patient information" through other methods.
Along the way she took time to vote and comment on the efforts to stop the press from doing its job.
The State Supreme Court has rejected without comment the efforts of a bombing suspect, Eric Robert Rudolph, to overturn a $115 million judgment against him awarded to Emily Lyons, a victim of the 1998 bombing at a Birmingham abortion clinic.
The Media Equation column on Monday, about legislative measures to curb online piracy, misspelled the surname of a founder of the Web site Kickstarter, who commented on the effort.
An article on Friday about a World Bank competition aimed at solving sanitation problems in poor countries gave an incorrect operating base for John Kluge Jr., a venture capitalist who commented on the effort.
Mr. Funk, commenting on the effort to modernize the emergency dispatch system, said, "I think it is common knowledge the program has had difficulty".
Commenting on the effort to recall him, Morse added "that's why politicians around the country don't want to stand up for this issue".
