Letters to the Editor
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Salon: Please post your correction within the article
I am a big fan of Salon, I read it daily, have writting for it before, hope to again, and I have tremendous respect for what how the magazine has taken huge chances other media avoid.
That said, I was very disappointed to see the correction (as it were) of the use of "uppity" buried within the comments.
I've been a journalist for decades, and words that loaded don't just appear. Any thinking political commentator or editor sees the word "uppity" and knows exactly what it means.
It's use was purposeful, if regrettable. If Salon regrets it, the editors need to put a statement to that effect on the front page. Thanks to the blogs, too many faithful Salon readers know about it. By scrubbing it; it looks shifty and disengenuous.
Slate, a magazine I don't enjoy nearly as much, does a fantastic job making corrections a public matter. Their technique of anchored corrections show integrity dealing with the smallest mistakes that Salon should mirror with this giant one.