Letters to the Editor
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@ maureenodonnell
Before I go, maybe forever, I can't get over how intolerant writers to this site are of opinions contrary to those of their own. Demands for sacking of the editor-in-chief because her opinions don't coincide with yours are horribly similar to what Arthur Miller depicted in "The Crucible".
My reasons for leaving Salon after the primary have less to do with the fact that my opinions clearly differ from those of its editor-in-chief and more to do with the fact that, in my opinion, Joan just doesn't get it. We're in the middle of the most historic presidential campaign of my lifetime, one that could potentially reshape political discourse going forward, and Joan is still mired in the personality-based, identity politics that I am sick to death of. And judging from the comments on this article and Obama's poll numbers, I'm not the only one.
If I want to read a defense of the mainstream media ambushing presidential candidates with irrelevant "gotcha" questions in what is supposed to be a debate, there are plenty of other places that do it better and faster. At this point, Salon's a third-rate progressive news and views site, and it's well on its way to becoming a tenth-rate MSM news site. I started reading Salon years ago because I value alternative and progressive voices. If Salon's editorial direction no longer supports these, then I no longer wish to support the site, either with a subscription or the page views that help their advertising rates.
And your "Crucible" analogy is just ludicrous. It's simply not possible for progressive readers like myself to blacklist anybody in this day and age. The vast majority of our media wallows in the kind of shallow, irrelevant crap that Joan doesn't seem to have any problem with. If Salon's parent company smartens up and tosses Joan out on her ass, I'm sure she'd have a brilliant career ahead of her as a token middle-aged feminist talking head on any of the cable news networks.