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alas, I don't know from marketing.
I mean "allow" in a practical, journalistic sense. We always have and will continue to have plenty of "gurls news," as you put it. I write a lot of it.
What a blog format "allows" us to do is point quickly to a story like the Iceland story, a story we would not have had the resources to report on our own in a timely fashion. Someone else wrote a good story about it. A blog "allows" us to direct readers to that story.
I think our disagreement isn't about the allowing, though. It's about the organizing principle of the blog: women's news. It's that organizing principle that you find flawed and retro that I find progressive and exciting.
If you want to continue the discussion with me please feel free to write directly (rtraister@salon.com). I should also clarify that I have not written any stories about women crying in the office. That was someone else.
