I think I'm on to something: Salon is actively shielding their reviewer Stephanie Zacharek from criticism...

 We all know how much SZ hates movies... all movies.  Historically her letters thread are made up of a significant percentage of people who flame her for her absolute hatred of movies; myself included.  For all the world I cannot understand how someone who consistently gives bad reviews to everything she's assigned to can still have a job.  At the best she's part of an extremely small niche group of people whose taste in movies consists of 3 or 4 french films, otherwise she really just has no taste in movies at all.

Lately, however, Salon has started closing the letters threads for SZ after a day or two.  Her latest review was closed at page 3; coincidentally the first page where someone pointed out how much she hates movies.  So what gives?  Is Salon censoring its readers, stifling their voices?  Why?  Wouldn't it be so much easier, and classier, to just hire a new reviewer who, every once in a while, enjoys a film?

And for you, Stephanie:  Why do you do it?  Why do you continue to work at a job that forces you to submit to things you hate?  I can't imagine having to sit through a genre of films I despised, week after week, and then write about it.  Every now and then is one thing, but over and over again... as a job?  And you despise the vast majority of films, how disappointing your work must be!  Do yourself a favor; do us ALL a favor.

Quit.