salon vs. slate vs. atlantic

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I'm about 3/4 of the way through the new issue of the Atlantic and am really thinking of cancelling my own damn subscription. It seems to have turned wholly into Freakonmics bullshit and corporation porn.

President Keyes, Friday, 30 November 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link

what a Moran

mayor mcpotle (mh), Friday, 30 November 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link

i don't fuck with the magazine at all but the site has some good writers

am kind of an alexis madrigal stan

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 6 December 2012 03:14 (eleven years ago) link

the magazine side barely matters at this point I think, my friend who worked there said they never even had copies in the office

iatee, Thursday, 6 December 2012 03:15 (eleven years ago) link

well when i worked in a deli i couldn't eat the food after a while either

before and after broscience (goole), Thursday, 6 December 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link

one month passes...

it's hard to believe the pr nightmare this is gonna be was worth whatever they got paid

iatee, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 00:56 (eleven years ago) link

lol three threads bumped sorry

mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 00:57 (eleven years ago) link

scientologists should have just bought newsweek imo

mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 00:58 (eleven years ago) link

their churches look really nice fwiw, except cincinnati

lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 00:59 (eleven years ago) link

ha scitis trying to fill up the comments

President Keyes, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 01:55 (eleven years ago) link

Operation Reverse Ferret

"We have temporarily suspended this advertising campaign pending a review of our policies that govern sponsor content and subsequent comment threads."

Theodora Celery, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 05:10 (eleven years ago) link

scientologists should have just bought newsweek imo

― mookieproof, Monday, January 14, 2013 7:58 PM (Yesterday)

haha the thought of tina brown trying really hard to make scientology look Of The Now is cracking me up

maura, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 14:42 (eleven years ago) link

lolllllll oh that is too good

maura, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link

well it finally happened, salon has published a truther:

http://www.salon.com/2013/01/22/give_truthers_a_chance/

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 05:57 (eleven years ago) link

oh dear

the best thing about that is how he buries it in the middle of the piece though, like yeah these sandy hook people sure are crazy, btw planes can't melt steel

k3vin k., Wednesday, 23 January 2013 06:14 (eleven years ago) link

i like how he ends it by reminding us that "the jfk 'truthers' were eventually vindicated." oh right, i remember when that happened!

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 06:21 (eleven years ago) link

salon runs JFK conspiracy stuff a lot

Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 07:11 (eleven years ago) link

ghost rider did 9/11

buzza, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 07:30 (eleven years ago) link

"What concerns me about the repudiation of the Hookers is that the 9/11 Truthers are being tarred with the same “crackpot” brush. "

lololololol

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 08:03 (eleven years ago) link

oh good salon finally found a replacement for greenwald

Mordy, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 13:25 (eleven years ago) link

there it is

k3vin k., Wednesday, 23 January 2013 13:30 (eleven years ago) link

salon removed the story and apologized for the truther stuff (but not the JFK stuff lol).

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/01/no-jfk-in-salon-apology-for-truthers-piece-155038.html

Salon founder David Talbot (no longer with the company) has said that the Kennedy assassination "grew out of the American government."

"I think it was the CIA that was given the job of implementing (the coverup); I think they brought in the mob at crucial times to take care of some of the dirtier work," Talbot, the author of a 2007 book about the Kennedys called "Brothers," said in a 2011 interview. "Basically, this was an executive decision made at the highest levels of American government, and that involved people at the CIA and at the Pentagon."

In 2011, Salon published an article by Jefferson Morley called "The holy grail of the JFK story," which advised readers on how to "get into the conspiratorial weeds" of Kennedy's assassination: "Kennedy’s death was said to be the tragic result of the psychotic actions of one individual... More likely, Kennedy was ambushed by enemies who sought to avoid detection," Morley wrote.

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link

salon is like atlantic's lil brother trying to get attention after the scientology thing

iatee, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 20:31 (eleven years ago) link

hey guys look at us we publish crazy shit too won't somebody talk about us on twitter please just a little

iatee, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 20:34 (eleven years ago) link

wow,in the last few weeks Atlantic puts up Sci-Ti propaganda and Salon publishes a Truther. It's only a matter of time until Slate starts publishing stories about how black people are genetically inferior. oh wait.

President Keyes, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 20:36 (eleven years ago) link

hah

lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 20:39 (eleven years ago) link

lol slate couldn't help taking a swipe
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/01/23/salon_truthers_online_mag_publishes_retracts_9_11_conspiracy_story_give.html

Mordy, Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:03 (eleven years ago) link

slate won "the contest"

J0rdan S., Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:05 (eleven years ago) link

The article was selected from the partner site because a junior editor saw that it was connected to the Sandy Hook truther coverage and got a little “overexcited” about it, Lauerman says.

Salon fucked up that Imam gives Syrian rebels permission to rape 14-year-olds story too. I wonder if it was the same junior editor.

Mordy, Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:06 (eleven years ago) link

fuckin junior editors amirite

mookieproof, Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:08 (eleven years ago) link

i totally get it. what senior editor wants to read the fucking "partner sites" for content?

Mordy, Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:09 (eleven years ago) link

favorite part of that article is when he says "all conspiracy theories" are the result of "bogus" official stories. Like, for example, the moon landing?

Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:18 (eleven years ago) link

ok but to be fair there is a lot of strong evidence that kubrick directed the moon landing after the actual moon landing failed to provide usable footage

Mordy, Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:20 (eleven years ago) link

no real person would ever call himself 'buzz'

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:22 (eleven years ago) link

i wanna know where they stand on beyoncegate.

s.clover, Thursday, 24 January 2013 03:18 (eleven years ago) link

ok but to be fair there is a lot of strong evidence that kubrick directed the moon landing after the actual moon landing failed to provide usable footage

read your kottke blogs

mookieproof, Thursday, 24 January 2013 03:21 (eleven years ago) link

slate won "the contest"

― J0rdan S., Thursday, January 24, 2013 1:05 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 28 January 2013 02:28 (eleven years ago) link

one month passes...

damn

j., Tuesday, 5 March 2013 08:29 (eleven years ago) link

Yeesh

Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 10:22 (eleven years ago) link

"repurposing" is absolutely Orwellian

screen scraper (m coleman), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 10:49 (eleven years ago) link

"we both, as it were, moved on to different places"

Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 12:14 (eleven years ago) link

"repurposing" is absolutely Orwellian

― screen scraper (m coleman), Tuesday, March 5, 2013 5:49 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha no it isn't

zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 15:05 (eleven years ago) link

it is a really good lengthy article to propose somebody be paid nothing at all for.

s.clover, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 17:15 (eleven years ago) link


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