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Seems that Salon (the people who this blog is hosted with) are on the ropes (yet) again and getting, bizzarly, hate mail. Like, wha? Hate mail? For a news site? Can you imagine people writing in to The Gaurdian going "Ha ha! Die, evil liberalist scum!"? Does the whole of America over-react like this, or is this just journalists creating a bit of a storm in a coffee(because it's American, right?)cup?
If this sort of thing happened in England, the publication in question would just dissapear quietly off the shelves / web without comment. Actually, it'd have to be shelves because I can't think offhand of any British news websites other than the BBC... Deep in suburbia, behind closed net curtains, it might be quietly commented that the sort of people that read that publication might be a bit short of reading material these days, but that's about the limit.
Quite a lot of social analysis and classification seems to be based on what newspaper was read in the house where someone grew up. So, old chap... Er, were your parents Times or Sun readers? Growing up with the wrong sort of newspaper can have a seriously detrimental effect on your intulectual well-being. Too low-brow and it'll stunt your growth, too high-brow and it'll give you ideas above your station (incase you're wondering, Dad had an argument with the local Co-Op around 1973 and has refused to buy a paper from them since, on principle...).
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