Online magazine Salon, an early staple of internet discourse, announces it will shut doWn

AP ^ | November 5, 2026 | BY TED ANTHONY AND JOCELYN NOVECK

[artichokegrower]

Salon, one of the early internet’s most influential websites that featured sharp voices and political and cultural journalism with a liberal sensibility, announced Thursday it would shut down after 31 years of publication. “It has been an extraordinary privilege,” the outlet said in a farewell note.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: liberaltruth

[artichokegrower]

But where am I going to get my dairy dose of lefty BS

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I read the announcement -and it wasn't that they would shut down, it was that they had shut down. Done, kaput, gone.

I think the interesting thing is the decision to wait until after the election to announce it. It tells you about their sense of self-importance that, despite bleeding massive amounts of cash for a long time, they couldn't shut down before the midterms.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.