Letters to the Editor
yogawriter
Published Letters: 8 Editor's Choice: 1
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Cary, hold on. Your advice was sound.
[Read the article: My wife-to-be attacks me with her fists]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cary, your advice was spot on in this situation. Some situations are not hopeless, not without value and redemption. They can be healed and fixed. Our American mentality is to walk away. Maybe much of the time we should, but not always. We are not broken. The situation is fixable. THIS situation is not broken. You are right. There might be a way. I love Salon because it's liberal, but I also loathe it for that. Liberals can be just as stubborn and stuck and jackass in their views as Bill O'Reilly spouting conservatives. Open up your minds, people. There is not only ONE "right way" to do things. There are many paths to happiness and freedom.
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Um, hello, Rachel Green?
[Read the article: "Invisible in Hollywood: Jewish women"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jennifer Aniston played a very modern, non-stereotypical Jewish women on a little show called FRIENDS.
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accurate?
[Read the article: "Life's not simple"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One of the reasons I love salon is I find it often to be more accurate than even the NYT. But this sentence in this article made me cringe:
"The Lookout" is the closest thing to a Hollywood film Gordon-Levitt has made in his second career.
As a few other letter writers have noted, JGL was in a "little" Hollywoood movie called TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU. It was a huge hit for that market. Don't get me wrong, I love TEN THINGS, but did Andrew O'Hehir not even bother to look up JGL's IMDB credits before interviewing him? Shameful.
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one more cool thing about HEREOS
[Read the article: Dick Cheney's least favorite TV show?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is a bit off theme, but I've always quietly marveled at the fact that there's an interatial couple on HEROES with a mixed race child: Micah. And no one ever, ever mentions it on the show. It's just considered normal, which it is. I have a number of black/white couple friends with kids. What a rad show!
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rich writers?! a myth!
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The average yearly income of a member of the Writer's Guild of America is $62,000 a year. I should know, I'm a member of the WGA myself. We are not "rich people taking up signs against other rich people". We are normal, middle class citizens who are striking in order to force greedy corporate America to share their profits. Profits they've earned because of our hard work. Ms. Havrilesky, you perpetuate the "spoiled artists" myth which is one of the reasons why this strike has become so contentious in the first place. For someone who claims to love TV, you don't seem interested in helping foster a positive public perception that could bring the strike to a postive conclusion.
Hilary Galanoy
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public apology
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am one of the angry WGA writers/salon.com subscribers who wrote in earlier (and happily signed my name; I am proud to be a union member). Ms. Harvilesky, while I appreciate your apology re: your glibness about the writer's strike, I think it shouldn't be buried in the letters section. I think it needs to be a headline, like your regular column. Since you say you support the writers, put your money where your mouth is. Let America know that the issues we're fighting for are fair and just.
Hilary Galanoy
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writers' strike
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Last week, Ms. Havrilesky, you made glib, untrue, and potentially damaging remarks about the WGA being on strike. You recieved so many outraged letters you actually printed a clarification/apology in the letters section. You wrote toward the end of your letter, and I quote:
I'll try to address the strike in more detail next week
While you do wuss out by using the word "try", I noticed not one mention of the writes strike or your apology in this week's column. I had waited anxiously for it all week; a fair look at what's really going on. The fact that you buried your apology and now pretend you never said anything makes me sick to my stomach. It's amazing in what a short time I have lost respect for salon's editorial content.
Once again for the record, I am a striking (usually working) member of the WGA who just got a job on Saturday because I have no other way to pay my bills. We are not rich people taking up signs against other rich people. I can't emphasize that enough for your readers.
Hilary Galanoy