Letters to the Editor
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Camille Paglia is Salon's Paid Troll
Let's face it. Camille Paglia is a paid troll for Salon.
Her job is to write a lengthy diatribe, being sure to include a number of inane, controversial, off-the-wall, or, in rare cases, genuinely stimulating opinions, and to do so in such an arrogant and obnoxious way that it's guaranteed to stir up lots of feedback and discord, and make everyone crazy.
Because it's all about the page views, folks. And remember, page views drive ad revenue.
Do the math.
Consider for example, one standard one-page article, that generates one page of letters. If 10,000 readers read the article and the letters, that's 20,000 page views.
Take one bloated 4-page Paglia bloviation, and the attendant 10 pages of letters. Those same 10,000 readers...you now have 140,000 page views.
Ka ching!!! Ka ching!!!
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