Reply #108: salon.com "not in a generous mood in their essay" - but I was;)

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Hi Ojai Person!

I don't consider Salon a serious publication. They have a very serious and gifted journalist, Eric Boehlert who should have been hired away by someone else by now. Other than that, "there's no there there." What they put out was simply awful. There is a certain strategy to making ridiculous arguments which then have the benefit of confounding the recipient - "What the heck are they talking about?"

I was most interested in the fact that both Salon and Mother Jones (and I hold the publications responsible) used the sleazy tactic of 1)picking a "bad guy" - Fitrakis for MJ and "the professor and the political forum" for Salon (Miller,DU) - implying there is something off about the villain; then linking the others in the movement to that person. Fitrakis is a PhD, has received awards for journalism from his colleagues in Ohio and is an attorney. What's wrong with any of that. DU - Miller, seriously. These are their "bad guys." I should have pointed out that this looks a lot like the rhetoric of bigotry and defamation. But then they would have responded, "rank was seen cavorting with a user showing a pitcher of Cool Aid as an avatar, and we know what that means."

It all has a 1984 ring when you just look at the dirty tricks involved in these straw man bad guys and ridiculous implications.

Everyone subscribing to Salon, be generous to yourself and save your money next time around.