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Do the writers and editors of Salon not realize they have a choice?
Look, they're in this business to make money. And right now they're able to make a little bit off Paris.
Plus, Rebecca and Heather to get put this byline on their resumes. It's important for a professional cultural critic to have written something ironically and cleverly hateful about Paris Hilton.
That's like money in the bank, too.
They've got to get their payoff before the public gets bored and turns on somebody else.