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What, exactly, is the policy of Salon (or this column) about personal attacks on authors which are entirely unconstructive? Telling Mr. Manjoo, for example, to "get a real job," when thousands of paid writers are currently working in similar jobs, for publications like Consumer Reports (publications which, by their very existence, prove the value of the work to at least thousands of other Americans) is asinine, and I'd prefer not to read it.
I would certainly not object to such posts being removed in the future, to spare us the frustration of reading poorly thought out insults and trolls.
Frankly, Mr. Manjoo, while I may not always agree with your assessment of the utility of certain new technology, I'm glad that there's someone else out there slogging through new products and inventions, and reporting on them, so that I don't have to spend the time.
