Say the editors of Salon, in "Goodbye from Salon/It has been an extraordinary privilege."
It seems to me Salon had a gigantic head start in on line magazine. Why didn't it take advantage of that?
Thirty-one years is a remarkable run, but what matters most is what happened during those years: the journalism, the ideas, the voices, the conversations and the community that grew around them. Salon helped demonstrate what digital journalism could be and could become.
Helped demonstrate... how? By negative example? Why aren't you out in front, where you started? Who outdid you and why?
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Sit long enough by the river and eventually the bodies of your enemies float by.
It sounded better when Wallace Hartley said it.
Salon was only online, right? How many online-only "journalism" outlets survived? Especially on the left, where the field was already saturated by the mainstream.
Seems most successful sites had an established hard copy version. (Sites that don't ever pretend to break news and just do opinion don't count.)
I thought the democrats had won.
What is going on here?
LOL
Somebody should bring back the original Wonkette Ana Marie Cox
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