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• Sunday, April 1, 2007 10:23 PM

  Abysmal

  This piece was horrible on every level. It was a dumb idea (I used to like a sex columnist but now I like him less but I'll still read him. That's the sort of thing you yak about with your friends, not share with the world as a professional article.) It was poorly argued and written. It isn't even controversial because it doesn't have a logical point. It's just a personal reaction to another writer. It's an email masquerading as a column.

  And to those who say that we shouldn't complain when bad writing appears on Salon, well we premium members are paying to support this site, and this is the best way we have to react to the editorial content. I bought a subscription in order to support Salon's reporting on the war in Iraq and other important issues, because I think it's important to support such journalism at a time when the 'mainstream' media has so clearly dropped the ball. I realized that some of my money would be spent on fluffy junk, because Salon has always had a certain level of fluffy junk. But I expect the fluffy junk to at least be mildly entertaining. I clicked on this article because I thought it might tell me something I didn't know about Dan Savage, or at least provide an interesting perspective from someone who grew to have questions about the validity of his work. It did neither. It isn't even funny.

  Dear Debra Dickerson,

  I've never found any of your work to be well-written, cogent, or informative. With this last article I now realize that I shouldn't expect those things from you, because you are content to phone in your assignments. I hope you are fired and replaced with a better writer soon so no more of my money is wasted paying you to hammer something out 2 hours before your deadline. This is not a personal attack, I do not wish you ill, but I hope you are pursuing some other career interests, because what you write is simply not worth reading.

  —BennyBrooklyn Read BennyBrooklyn's other letters
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