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There is also the oddity of reducing this essay, even though it has 437 words and Logan's essay has 418 words and is displayed fully on the Broadsheet page. Are you familiar with Amanda Marcotte's book, the ostensibly progressive one with the cartoon images of the white girl fighting the black "savages"? Ms. Marcotte argued that in her excitement, she missed how the cover might offend, while in the book, she argued against racism. Reducing Ms. Harding's essay might be replicating this dynamic and the greater cultural dynamic of reducing the importance of missing black children by not tendering them coverage. Not only won't Salon give this front page treatment, it doesn't even merit a full display of Ms. Harding's essay on the Broadsheet page. I'm not suggesting that this was done with malice. I am suggesting that the cultural evaluation that Ms. Harding addresses might be at play at Salon, just as surely as it infiltrated Ms. Marcotte's choices.
