The fall of Salon.com

[james_1957]

How a digital trailblazer and progressive powerhouse lost its way.

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.

We were inmates who took over the journalistic asylum,” David Talbot, who founded the site in 1995, wrote on the Facebook page. “And we let it rip — we helped create online journalism, making it up as we went along. And we let nobody — investors, advertisers, the jealous media establishment, mad bombers, etc — get in our way.”

They are mourning a publication they barely recognize today.

http://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/05/the-fall-of-saloncom-004551

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Sounds more like the winter...



... of discontent.

 

[water505]

"Progressive powerhouse?"

More like a leftist rag.

 

[Rightguide]

One wonders if KingOrfeo isn't responsible for their decline. Since I've been here nobody has been more responsible for spreading Salon's idiocy and alerting the public to their anti-American totalitarian approach to governance.