Letters to the Editor
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The issue is your last sentence, Joan. But who's watching Salon's discriminating choices?
Joan, I was greatly offended by the story Salon recently ran regarding trolling for sex in public bathrooms. This site did so mainly for business reasons. You stirred up a hornets nest Joan, and only to draw people to this site so they can argue.
That was marketing news which is just another form of exploiting facts. Censorship is only one form of using the press for corporate purposes. It cuts both ways, man. You can't use any derivative of the age old tactic of saying, "We didn't report this salaciousness; we only covered the reporting we felt was disproportionate."
Truth be told, I find the explotation of Senator Craig's conduct much more out of bounds then the outright censorship of the Washington Post. Joan, quite frankly, we all know WP has an agenda of corporate interests. Salon is supposed to be the next generation of news and when it resorts to the same old standards at a minimum hypocrisy is the result.
For some time now I've wanted to say this, and it's hard to have to be this blunt because I consider the Salon community as friend, but obviously Salon is becoming a career for those who work for your site with many times only all the narrow self interests that implies. Keep in mind please, newspapers in America were polemics first. They were unabashedly pro a point of view and stood in that direction regardless of business success. Now we have journalists and "standards" and a continous play on words!
Don't sell me anything Joan. Just tell what you see and why.
I'll buy if you do, I'm done with you guys if you don't