UNLIKE DAMIAN PENNY, I DON’T WANT SALON TO GO BANKRUPT. I’ve liked Salon, which does a lot of good reporting amidst the knee-jerk Joe Conason-style stuff.

But reading the comments to Scott Rosenberg’s reply to Penny, I think that Rosenberg comes off as unpersuasive. The 9/11 piece was intended to shock and get attention. It did. Now it’s being criticized — in a less vicious spirit, as commenters note, than the piece itself displayed — and Rosenberg’s unhappy. That’s breaks.

UPDATE: Rosenberg has a new post responding to the critics of his response to Damian Penny’s response to the piece featuring reader responses to. . . . well, this is the Blogosphere, isn’t it?