Letters to the Editor
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One Hand Washes The Other
If indeed Salon is publishing this seriously unserious columnist because of the hits and letters then the love-in between her and Matt Drudge is looking more like a convenience than a coincidence. I'm not suggesting that Paglia's inane anti-Al Gore/global warming opinions are insincere, or that Drudge believes these views to be contrived or cares, but I wonder if she's not cognizant of the symbiotic relationship they've developed. Given today's column, (or at least what I can infer of it by the comments), it is fair to assume she is a Drudge aficionado. Would it then be lost on this ninny of a nihilist that the appearance of such opinions in a liberal publication- to say nothing of a mention of his unholy web site and pointless polls (Drudge is nothing if not a ruthless self-promoter)- virtually guarantees a highly placed link there?
So now I'm thinking that there are plenty of examples of this type of symbiosis in industry. Take the IPOs of the late 90's- systematically under priced, pumped up by phony research and fed to wealthy clients right before they soared a few hundred percent. That favor was returned by the steering of the investment banking business of corporations these wealthy folks control (and occasionally owned) to the issuing banks. Of course, that was finance, money for money's sake, and this is supposed to be journalism, but take it from the Bancrofts- business is business.