salon vs. slate vs. atlantic

fucking rich technohippies

salon can't have that much money, maybe at one point when it was the future of journalism, today it's a miracle it's still around

I mean a terrible miracle mostly

and lo on the seventh night the clickbait still burned

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that reads like it's by the vox dude who dislikes eating

How to stop writing for The Atlantic

The piece that got him blackballed is pointless and vapid, ftr.

couldn't have happened to a more deserving writer imo

lol at him characterizing his incredibly nasty and smug remarks in that piece as "i mentioned in passing..."

anything that means less of his shitty and worthless writing on the internet is a good development

I was trying to think of anything he'd written that I could remember reading prior to this - came up empty.

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http://thebaffler.com/salvos/omniscient-gentlemen-of-the-atlantic

lol

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2016/2/six-hot-media-startups-to-watch-in-2016.html

lol lol

Al Jazeera America has removed the satirical piece originally posted on this link, which included commentary on our company that we believe was not appropriate given its imminent closure.

nooooooooooooooooooo!!!

lmao it was so good

surely if anything al-jazeera's imminent closure is what made it appropriate

anyway no right to be forgotten

more perma link https://web.archive.org/web/20160225134033/http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2016/2/six-hot-media-startups-to-watch-in-2016.html

salon about to become faintly ridiculous in a different way

http://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/08/new-salon-very-different-from-the-old-salon-004705

Can't possibly be worse

oh sure it could!

i honestly can't tell the difference between slate and onion headlines anymore:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/12/i_am_glad_the_harlem_deer_is_dead.html

that's really an all-time headline.

feels more clickhole tbh.

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new slate website design is extremely ugly

The Atlantic, by a fair margin.

atm atlantic is the best of the 3 but they're all really bad i don't visit any regularly any more

Should Jews separate anti-Semitism from politics? https://t.co/zMNxsyBKRd pic.twitter.com/zSJSXJPmWi

— Slate (@Slate) November 1, 2018

pardon?

slate really should stop publishing anything

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/pete-buttigieg-gay-diversity-white-male-candidate.html

they're only good for dear prudence any more

Wow these three sites have been ILX’s collective punching bag. This thread is just seven years worth of bitching. Why is it every time a site gets redesigned everyone hates it?

i wouldn't have expected a white knight for salon, slate and the atlantic to appear at this hour and for that white knight to be mr. snrub

xp every redesign is a betrayal

it's sad, it was an american century

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my fuckin dentist

rat bastard

The Atlantic is cutting 68 staffers - 17% of the total. Imagine having a staff of 400 and not being able to produce anything better than The Atlantic.

The shrinking of media jobs is depressing but if it must happen...

That's too bad. I don't usually think much of the Atlantic but they've been rocking their pandemic coverage imo.

i guess laurene powell jobs ran out of money : /

the greatest #slatepitch of all: the dark side of coloring books

https://slate.com/culture/2020/08/coloring-books-history-coronavirus.html

Basically, the center-right is terrified of the far-left and the center-left is terrified of the far right, and that is causing both to be less willing to criticize the fringe that is closest to them, which many earnestly see as obviously the lesser threat.

— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) September 6, 2020

Brain genius stuff

Seems like a weakness for a political journalist.

Maybe! I certainly worry about far right terrorists more. But I don't trust my ability to know who is the bigger threat and assiduously oppose both

— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) September 6, 2020

what if there were one stop shop for greenwald, megan mcardle and slate cultural criticism. wouldn't that be your homepage too?

for me to poop on

Atlantic on Atlantic crime

Saying nothing at all is an option that is permanently available to you, and that I urge you to more frequently consider. The same goes for tagging me into your thoughts.

— Ed Yong (@edyong209) February 24, 2022

The Atlantic has run the "you just can't say ANYTHING these days" essay again. This time, it's credited to Sarah Hepola. What's infuriating about this essay, no matter whose byline it carries this week, is that it pretends there are "forbidden" opinions that cry out to be debated, but...never tells you what they are. Because they're "forbidden," you see. I would love it if just one of these pieces offered a list of the topics you "can't write about." But they never do. "I’d grown terrified of being banished for views I considered reasonable, or at least worth discussing" — LIKE WHAT? COME ON, GIVE US JUST ONE. I DARE YOU. She gets SO close, too: "suddenly we were living in a time when so much that was once considered fair game for discussion (education, biological differences, the benefits of policing) had become dangerous." Love that second one, tucked carefully into that parenthetical... I'm sure someone at the Atlantic would be happy to give Hepola Charles Murray's email address; they could talk "biological differences" all day long and into the night. Oh, but she wouldn't be able to "discuss" it with readers of the Atlantic! The loss to our culture is incalculable, truly.

Why do artists and designers keep doing this? And why don't editors tell them, "I see what you did there, ha ha. Now put together the real version by deadline."

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