Like others here who have made similar statements, I elected to join Salon because it provided something that was missing in the coverage of current events by the corporate-owned media. Having suffered repeated episodes of cognitive dissonance whenever I would read the latest "Our brilliant Commander In Chief swam across the Yangtse this morning, and just look at that package!" hagiographic hogwash that was prevalent among the networks, magazines and major newspapers, I was looking, nay, starving for a media site that would deliver news and opinions relatively untainted by Republican Party talking points. Salon, and its wonderful Internet community, Table Talk, provided that haven of sanity for a long time.

Table Talk remains a great place to discuss current events, but Salon itself has gone downhill. A case in point is this current article by Farhad Manjoo, which is something I'd expect to read over at National Review Online or Townhall.com. Manjoo is a known quantity at Salon, and his apparent biases on this particular issue make him more suited to, say, Fox News than Salon. Assigning him a high-profile piece with the objective of examining Robert Kennedy Jr.'s article in Rolling Stone, then, was an editorial mistake, and that mistake rests squarely on the shoulders of Salon's editor, Joan Walsh.

Will Walsh do the right thing here? How soon can we expect a well-researched article on this issue from a writer not named Farhad Manjoo? I for one don't expect to see it, just as I for one don't expect to see myself continuing to subscribe to a website that seems to be morphing into another hollow neocon-validating parody, yet another formerly liberal voice now echoing the latest Karl Rove-approved talking points. You may find your takers for such a product, Ms. Walsh, but don't ask me to continue to pay for it.