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Joan Walsh writes:
"If having a black president and first lady is going to narrow what we talk about, wow, that would be sad."
Much of the backlash against the backlash to this article seems to be focusing on more-or-less first amendment issues -- Salon has a right to print this work and so they should. That is beside the point. There is no shortage of magazines, tabloids, and so on to read about the president's dog, body shape, toothpaste, etc. What we are missing increasingly are editors willing to make the decision to report hard news and analysis and eschew this nonsense. There are now too many Erin Kaplans and too few Glenn Greenwalds.
