Posted on 05/29/2016 1:54:16 AM PDT by JSteff
"How a digital trailblazer and progressive powerhouse lost its way.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/05/the-fall-of-saloncom-004551#ixzz4A25lhJhi Follow us: @politico on Twitter | Politico on Facebook
A Facebook page dedicated to celebrating the 20th anniversary of digital media pioneer Salon is functioning as a crowdsourced eulogy.
Dozens of Salon alumni have, over the past several months, posted their favorite stories from and memories of the once-beloved liberal news site described as a “left-coast, interactive version of The New Yorker,” a progressive powerhouse that over the years has covered politics with a refreshing aggressiveness, in a context that left plenty of room for provocative personal essays and award-winning literary criticism.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/05/the-fall-of-saloncom-004551#ixzz4A25wS8WO Follow us: @politico on Twitter | Politico on Facebook"
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Have not done any posts for years, hope I got it right!
current salon reading material includes such gems as the following (referred to in the politico article with some disdain— who knew that politico had any taste in literature lol)
-—In recent months Salon has refused to do that. It has developed a reputation for being not just sympathetic to Bernie Sanders, but overtly hostile to Hillary Clinton
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Sounds like Politico is attempting stick this albatross around Salon’s neck while at the same time warning others of the demise that awaits them if they stray off the Clinton farm.
Salon death watch
That was the Microsoft mouthpiece, yes?
What is the Apple mouthpiece? Huffington? Politico?
What is the Google mouthpiece?
Microsoft wasn’t mentioned in the article. Seems initial funding came from Apple and Adobe, and long term funding from a now aging pair of angel investors.
I don’t know, but the Amazon mouthpiece is the Washington Post.
The Democrat party is in complete disarray, having followed Obama off the cliff. The Bernie phenomenon is not so much the embrace of socialism, as the rejection of Obama/Hillary style governance. Political correctness, the air that liberalism breathes, is being sucked out of the room by Donald Trump.
The choice is between a positive vision, or continued division, and the people seem to be choosing the former.
I don’t consider it dead until typing in Salon.com in the search bar brings up a blank page...and the website name is For Sale at GoDaddy.com.
Talk amongst yourselves: Did Salon have too few low-intelligence voters or too many?
Good job - thanks for posting.
So, Salon had the courage to break with the corrupt democrat Establishment? And that's their downfall?
I don't see the world their way, but hats off to them for the bravery.
We're standing up to our elites - and ours are only stuffed up impotent snobs - not thugs like Hillary and her crime family.
Since about 2001
Slate is an English-language online current affairs, politics and culture magazine in the United States created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft as part of MSN.
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