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What happened to Salon's supposed standards of quality journalism? What happened to NYU's? Objectivity, balance, tone of voice? Were your editors AWOL en masse?
Your resident hack-in-training needs to be dispatched to the National Enquirer if this is the best attempt at reportage that he can deliver to the Salon site. Instead of an incisive piece of writing, he barely succeeded in creating a hatchet job, though his blade proved rather dull. In my granny's time, they called this muck racking.