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I don't think Salon has reached low enough to get the big page hit numbers.
Sure, Flory, Traister and such are pretty vapid already, well into tabloid territory. But just imagine the clicks and ad revenue if Salon just went all the way and hired Miss Teen South Carolina to blog for BS.
Even Traister and Flory, out of bare minimum of self respect, must occasionally post a dry reality based news blurb, which always fail to generate the kind of tabloid controversy they're paid for.
But Miss Teen South Carolina would have no such dilemma and be free to continually post the most absurdly stupid, controversy creating, page view and click generating tabloid gold, 100% of the time. The perfect BS blogger.
She can surely cut, paste, and make non-sensical comments, the whole BS job description. Salon could probably even sponsor her through a Women's Studies program, and call it empowerment. They have no academic standards and will pass you for showing up, so no problem there.
There's the whole issue of self respect and journalistic integrity, but hey, Salon is way past that point.
