Letters to the Editor
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Glenn: Take a Peek at the Quantity of Letter Responses Generated by Various Salon Articles
1. You are the only Salon writer doing his or her job differently from those other journalists you are criticizing.
2. I do not always agree with your analyses.
3. But does not the content of Salon, especially measured by the quantity of Letters responses to specific articles, lend support to the assertion that this is what the Regular Folk are interested in? Compare the Letters generated by Walsh's inane articles to, for example, the recent article on Iraq war policies by Benin.
4. "Establishment journalists" are Regular Folk. They're not theoretical physicists, they're not mathematics professors, they're not poets, law professors, philosophers, painters, composers, brilliant entrepreneurs; basically, they are decent writers with decent middle-brow worldviews. They actually do care if Barack wears a flag-pin and so on.
Glenn, just look around your own Salon staff of "writers;" Voltaire ain't gonna be among them. It sucks, for sure. But it's true, for sure.
Keep up the good work.