Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 61 Editor's Choice: 2
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I'm With Stupid
[Read the article: CNN's iReport perpetrates false Steve Jobs rumor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, journo-haters, the rise of the Whining Right, efficiently amplified by the Web, is more responsible for our current woeful state of affairs than the alleged shortcomings of the nation's reporters.
You want different news? Buy your own damned paper/radio station/website.
Publishers set the agendas, not reporters. And as we can all plainly see, even a relatively liberal publisher such as Salon.com does its share of pandering for page-clicks.
I've never understood even the appeal of the "vox-pop" feature--wherein the unlucky junior reporter is forced onto the street to solicit the opinions of ordinary folks on Today's Topic. Who the **ck cares about what ordinary folks think. I didn't buy the paper to read what they think. I bought it to read what informed folks think.
Ditto the appeal of talk radio. Total mystery. You want to spend hours listening to...average, barely-literate citizens ranting?
But the worst?
Salon's letters section.
Scratch that.
Salon's 100%-reader-content shadow site. Oh, Sweet Jesus.
Anyway, Cyrus. Here's to reasonably professional reporting standards, and to their mildly inebriated execution by underpaid, over-educated writers who resist the siren call of advertising copywriting because, ultimately, they do still hang onto a shred of idealism.
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Unbelievable
[Read the article: My girlfriend "settled" for me -- and I don't trust her]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A useful answer from Cary Tennis.
(And, uh, yeah. Moving to Mexico would be a very bad idea.)
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WTF?
[Read the article: The rap on Palin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First, why the dearth of male Salon writers "weighing in" (gag) on Palin's appearance. Men can't express their opinions too?
Second, of *course* Baldwin knows how to read from a frigging teleprompter. He was deliberately conveying that these were not his original thoughts, and, likely for the "hot" comment, exactly opposite what he really thinks.
Jesus. "Unreliable narrator" anyone?
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FDIC?
[Read the article: What to do with your money now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't care how financially illiterate you were or are, Sarah, but not knowing what "FDIC insured" meant? You *are* kidding, right?
If this is genuinely the state of "college educated" Americans, then, yeah, you all are truly getting what you deserve. The bitch of it is that you're dragging the rest of us innocents down with you.
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"No competition, thank you. We're Americans," answers The Pilot
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What a shock.
Patrick Smith pooh-poohs aviation's role in global warming AND is against cabotage.
He writes: In theory it is a decent idea in that it might encourage U.S. airlines to clean up their act, customer service-wise.
You know what else it would do, deadwood-employee-wise? Over-serviced-routes-wise? Geriatric-aircraft-wise? Carbon-footprint-reducing-wise?
Yep. Better service on fewer flights using newer aircraft that require fewer pilots. That definitely sounds like a recipe for disaster...if you're a US airline employee.
For the rest of us? It's a beginning.
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Rehearsed spontaneity
[Read the article: Paging Kenneth!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This "interview" reads more like what it surely was--a contrived collaboration. Sure, Jack's a funny guy, but not as conveniently on schedule and topic as portrayed here. [laughs]
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Boldly Penny
[Read the article: Paging Kenneth!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First, ya'll need to open yer bold, then ya'll need to close yer bold.
The open part you evidently have mastered.
The closing requires a slash, i.e., that which appears under the question mark on your keyboard. < b > to start them boldacious words < / b > to end them. Minus the spaces, natch.
Now, fly, Penny, fly!