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Seriously. In a time of political, environmental, social, and religious crisis such as the one we are living in now, the role of the independent news media, such as Salon, should be to expose the hypocrisy, to call for reform, to keep a record of the wrongs committed by the ruling party. When life is good and things are fine, we can happily read fluffy articles about sex after baby. When life is anything but good, we expect something more from our news sources. This is not the time for fluff.