Letters to the Editor
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She has a megaphone because...
...because Salon would be crazy not to give her one. Look at the responses they're getting! Angry? Yes. Indignant? Absolutely. Incredulous? But of course. Oh, and something else: impassioned. Salon keeps this aîné terrible on the payroll because they know she'll garner emphatic responses -- even negative feedback is still feedback, after all.
I loathe this woman with a deep passion; almost everything she says is petrol on a tire fire. I'm also guaranteed to read her for exactly that reason. And Salon knows it. I believe most people who say, "I'll never subscribe to Salon again" are wholly disingenuous. Much like the person who writes a letter to a radio host, claiming he'll never listen to that program again... and then keeping his ear glued to see if it gets read on-air.
"Salon: A periodic gathering of people of social or intellectual distinction." Paglia is certainly socially distinct, if intellectually devoid. Salon succeeds in giving me interesting articles from a wide variety of personalities -- which means I'll be here, reading Paglia's next insane ramblings, brickbat in one hand and Pepto Bismol in the other.