Letters to the Editor
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Can we redesign Broadsheet?
I have to agree with Laura, the dissonance between those two adjacent pieces is palapable. Surely the celebrity stuff could easily be moved to The Fix, where it can be safely ignored by people (like myself) who don't care two whits about it? Meanwhile, Broadsheet could be reworked to focus on the pieces with real impact. Indeed, it could even be (pardon the term) broadened to cover all news that touches on gender issues, rather than just pigeonholeing news as "women specific".
I humbly suggest a transmogrification along these lines. I'll go further and suggest a new name, "Liaison", which is an almost-anagram of Salon and which implies that it's a go-between for all gender-based news. The seed is already here, in the excellent pieces you have posted interspersed among the fluff. All that's need is a move to a more concentrated format. Keep the important news and, instead of ghetto-izing women, ghetto-ize the trivial stuff.