Letters to the Editor
Paul A.
Published Letters: 11 Editor's Choice: 1
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Why the heck does anyone at Salon care what the New York Post has to say about Judith Miller?
[Read the article: Girls on Plame]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree that Maureen Dowd's jettisoning of Judith Miller was both newsworthy and obviously catty. ("It was such an outrageous move, I could only laugh. I got up and stood in the back of the room, while Judy claimed what she felt was her rightful power perch.") But, does the standpoint of someone at the New York Post add anything? The leadoff item in Salon's new Broadsheet features a commentary on a commentary that most Salon readers, I think, could care less about. Or is the problem that Salon hasn't ponied up for at least one subscription to "Times Select", and didn't get to the newsstand in time to pick up a copy of Dowd's original column? In any case, Salon should take care lest Broadsheet veer from "opinionated" to trivially "catty" itself.
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Ridiculous Bullsh*t Article
[Read the article: Topless bodies found in brainless magazine]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"16 visible female nipples (erect or exposed)"??? Recalls the "Church Lady" skits on SNL.
If Salon's really concerned about degradation of women, best thing to do is ignore fluff from Conde Nast and look for serious subjects to cover.
This is really lazy journalism. Not worth the price of the subscription.
Salon seems to have been taken over by a pack of liberal soccer moms. The problem with family-hood is that it's focused on family values (as, at bottom, is this ridiculous article). When you're raising young children, you don't care if your child's playmate's parent thinks W is the next best president to Ronald Reagan.
I've been there, it's a natural and valuable part of life. But it's not why I subscribed to Salon.
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And Salon ...
[Read the article: All the news stuff that's fit to print]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with the posters who point out that Salon is sliding down the same path implied in the kicker to this article. I'm not bothering to read the article itself, it looks like more of the hastily written, often shrill, and almost always boring commentary that has become so frequent in Salon these days.
Reminds me of the carping U.S. Trotskyists of some years back.
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Feed didn't work with Firefox
[Read the article: Camille and Cintra call the Oscars]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am among those who can't imagine why anyone's interested in the Oscars. This feed didn't work with Firefox. Once I switched to MSIE, I realized I hadn't missed anything. Couldn't tell who the people were or what they were talking about.
Has Salon thought about hooking up with Howard Stern somehow? That might be interesting.
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Another Angle
[Read the article: Women writers silent on abortion in the New York Times]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd be interested in comments on an NPR story regarding abortion of girls in India that aired March 21, "India confronts gender-selective abortion." In it, the assertion was made: Given cultural biases favoring sons, no Indian woman who already had daughters would hesitate to abort a girl to leave the opportunity for a subsequent male birth. Some of the statistics were quite shocking, as I recall up to a 50% reduction in live female births in some states. There appears to be a contradition between choice and basic morality -- at least U.S. standards of morality -- here. Comments?
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Typical of the Annoying Parenting Features that Seem to Populate Salon Lately
[Read the article: Mother inferior]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nice piece to feature on Mother's Day -- typical of Salon's weird "Life" editorial direction lately. Becoming a parent is a life transforming experience for everyone -- why can't Salon find some people who view it positively as a natural stage in the progress of life? Someone who enjoys and treasures their chidren and, along the way, gains new insights into their parents and the challenges their parents faced raising them.
I've long thought that one of life's important stages as we reach adulthood is becoming aware of our parents as people, with strengths and weaknesses, rather than the encompassing authority figures that they are to us as children. This is an important part of seeing ourselves as self-sufficient adults handling our own responsibilities.
Ms. Shapiro never seems to have been able to regard her mother adult to adult. It takes two to tango, and, given that Ms. Shapiro seems to be near 40, her mother's resentment toward her (if it existed outside of Ms. Shapiro's head) could well have been stoked by years of her daughter's immaturity and adolescent lack of appreciation toward her. If nothing else, Ms. Shapiro's mother seems to have gone to some extra effort to bring her into the world (a connection between her conception and her mother's alleged feelings as she neared death that seems to have escaped Ms. Shapiro).
When I was younger, I had feelings of anger toward my parents. I got over it. I have three children now. I hope they cut me some slack, as I learned to do toward my parents. I am teaching the youngest to drive. She confided recently that she's glad I'm not yelling at her as much as I yelled at her brother (now an undergraduate at a very good college despite this treatment). At the same time, my oldest daughter has confided that she is grateful that, during driving lessons, I yelled less than her mother (now deceased and unable to defend herself).
For the rest of her life, my youngest daughter is going to have the story of her driving lessons, and her brother's, and how much I yelled at him. Will she put this into Salon someday? Well, they all take good care of me on father's day and my birthday, so I'll just take my chances.
Is there any chance that some of the other 27 contributers to Salon's anthology has a more adult and mature attitude?
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Great Article
[Read the article: Sore losers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd like to see more material like this in Salon. Some of the earlier Salon coverage of the Connecticut primary was off the mark.
On "sore losers": check out the coverage over at The New Republic", which endorsed Lieberman in the 2004 primaries.
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Nice punchy article
[Read the article: Salon's shameful six]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The facts speak for themselves. Keep up the good research.