Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 189 Editor's Choice: 8
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Baloney about "our lines" from AT&T
[Read the article: The corporate toll on the Internet]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]AT&T seems to forget that they already get subsidized by us "consumers" by all the right-of-ways their lines are on. They didn't have to buy that land to run their lines, the government paid with out tax dollars for that line. Why would someone want to pay for high-speed service and yet only get whatever crap is willing to pay for preferred access, and the stuff they really want to bring through the internet come through slowly? I don't think it'd be long before customers started complaining that what they want isn't coming through at the speeds they're paying to receive. That, in my view, is fraud.
--Ron
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Where's the justification?
[Read the article: Camille's back!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OK, I've read 21 pages of commentary about Camille. I knew from previous postings by her that she drew a lot of letters, but I'd chosen not to read either her articles or letters after getting enough of her shtick years ago (I've subscribed to Salon since the beginning of subscriptions).
I decided to see how other Salon readers were taking the CP resurrection, and to my relief, they're hugely against her being given this venue. She truly doesn't, and never has deserved it, judging her purely on the quality of her "work."
One thing I've noticed in many of the letters praising CP and disparaging her many detractors is they claim (in so many words) that there's no substance to the complaints (richly ironic, that). Well, let's just play along and say that was true. Where then, are the quoted examples of her worthy writing, genuine insight, or simply accurate prognostication? They must be there, I've heard even a broken clock is right twice a day (I've often wondered, could that be true if both hands are missing?). If her detractors are required to give satisfactory explanation for their views, fairness dictates that her supporters do the same, or at least the ones who complain should.
And no, I feel no need whatsoever to read her again, she proved too long ago with her blame-the-victim writings that she is beneath contempt.
For Salon: please exhibit more sound judgment in the future. Just like that monstrous hit-piece you did on the late, great Mediawhoresonline.com which I won't forgive until you apologize, you tread very thin ice when you waste resources on stupid bloviators. Thankfully the wonderful writings of Joe Conason and others greatly outweigh your stupidity with CP, or I'd be adding my voice to the chorus of no-longer-subscribers.
Learn to differentiate quality from web-hits.
--Ron Robertson
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For those who don't "GET" why we wrote to complain
[Read the article: Camille's back!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We're complaining because CP is part of what's wrong in our country now. She's an apologist for the right-wing, yet claims to be a liberal. She constantly trashes gay people, particularly gay men, and yet she's a lesbian. THAT gets her far too much airtime, just like it does for Andrew Sullivan. So, the so-called left is constantly being undercut by fools like CP, and the causes even most of her fans seem to be for are being undercut by her. She gets airtime because the media, and apparently Salon, who many of us pay to read, think she's just precious, or whatever mindless accolade they want to assign.
She's not a contrarian, whatever that's really supposed to mean, she's just a professional offensivist. She only exists to offend, not to enlighten, she does not make one think, she just offends with her malevolent tripe, she does not have original thoughts, she just looks for a view and spouts whatever the opposite of it is, often while saying she's part of that view!
Having your position damaged over and over by people like CP, the media that's still full of "he said/she said" equivalencies for every position, and a pundit class that is largely made up of fools is a reason to be angry, because that's one of the main reasons we're in the place we're in today.
Like it's been said many times before, if you're not angry, you're not paying attention. And that's putting it overly nice.
--Ron Robertson