Letters to the Editor
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A New Low
The Sloane Crosley piece represents a new low for Salon. The Salon I once knew existed as a sort of ideological cultural opposition to oblivious, supercilious manifestations of pop culture. I might have expected a thoughtful essay analyzing the publication of stories and novels by privileged, connected young and pretty (vacant) white girls as both cause and symptom of the decline of literacy, the irrelevance of mainstream publishing, and also of the public's increasing disinterest in matters literary; but an excerpt offered as something any literate adult could find as anything other than repugnant? It's a joke, right?
Now that Tim Grieve is gone, Glenn Greenwald is all Salon has left. Greenwald, disingenuous pro-Hillary propaganda disguised as thoughtful, serious commentary, and now this -- promotion of the puerile. If Greenwald ever leaves, I wonder who will actually remain to help Joan Walsh clean up the place for new tenants?
Hillary I guess. They owe each other that much.