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First, I want to take a moment to go back and talk about what Salon used to be like. It used to be a bastion of left-leaning (albeit not too far) journalism, journalism that was researched well and edited carefully. Ahh, those were the days.
Now that I'm done with that and evidently Salon is, too ...
Farhad Manjoo's opinion on this subject will never change. He's misinterpreted, rather obtusely, the RKJ article, to yet again make his 'point' about the elections. You don't really have to read past the amazingly, unbelievably (ah, adverbs) title of the article to know how poorly argued it will be. Seriously, the person(s) who wrote earlier about the "No!" ... please ... they are all right. What a stupid, asinine thing to do as a headline. Oooh so shocking! Ooh so amateur in the world of journalism! Oooh so lame!
Why don't you make your next article headline: "Salon's Journalistic and Editorial Talent? Gone!" That would be exciting.
Farhad Manjoo, unless psychic, cannot say positively that the election was stolen or not stolen or if I bought eggs on the day of the election. He does not know. And, most of the evidence supports the strong possibility that, indeed, there was a very unusually large amount of voter fraud, the same kind of voter fraud, in different states. Which I think stretches coincidence so far ... well, it's preposterous.
As to the eggs I may have bought, Senator, I cannot recall precisely.
The huge amount of voter fraud that we absolutely KNOW occurred has led me to doubt my government and the elections, etc. and so on. Very rightly so. I'd be an idiot if I wasn't worried and disgusted by the whole thing.
That appeared to me to be the point of the RKJ article. A point which was not really argued at Salon at all. Mr. Manjoo argued something else, because he couldn't possibly argue that the majority of Americans feel all warm and snuggly about their election process at the moment.
As to Salon itself ... I used to love to come here. My visits to this site have fallen off precipitously in the last year or so. It's because the online journal isn't what it was.
This article, for instance ... if you had, perhaps, another piece running with this one, disagreeing with it, or well, anyone else writing it, someone with, say, some kind of professional standard about looking at both sides, I'd be much happier, I admit.
I don't mind reading about viewpoints that do not agree with mine. But, I get enough biased, poorly researched, 'cherry-picked' facts on the mainstream news. I need better stuff here. I used to get that. I don't anymore. I don't know yet whether I'll be taking my Barbies and going home, but I have started looking elsewhere to get good news. Grieve is pretty much the only one remaining that I trust and enjoy at this point.
