Recently, Salon asked Premium members to answer a questionnaire about ways Salon can attract and retain Premium members. I'll tell you one way.

I pledge, right now, that I will positively, definitely renew my Premium membership if Salon will pledge to become a completely Paris Hilton-free zone. I mean absolutely no mentions of Paris Hilton in Salon, other than the initial announcement of the zone.

Who's with me?

If I never had to hear one word about PHilton again in my entire life I would be happy indeed.

When I was asked what the major factor would be if I did not renew, I said the mindless tabloid media stories. Not just Paris, but all of the other celeb crap. Delete it and use the server space for something more useful.

Absolutely concur...even when I read the gawd-awful Fix everyday, that name just goes right through me...Paris-Free is the best way to be...

I'm the original "Make Salon a Paris-Hilton-free zone" poster. I didn't mean for the post to be anonymous.

I really think Salon could get a lot of mileage out of announcing the PH-free zone, gain new subscribers, and make current readers very, very happy at the same time.

I work in retail and we have a lot of, shall we say, eccentric customers. I totally sympathize with the pharmacists. I doubt they wrote that on her prescription because she's taking sleeping pills, I bet they have a better reason that she's not telling.

1) she is actively telling everyone that she is on this medication - that sort of blows her "I'm very private" argument.

2) I doubt that the employees wrote she is "crazy" and "psycho" because of her anti-depressants. More likely, they were treating her as they treat every other customer, which is in a fairly discrete manner, and she flipped out and reamed a couple of them. I mean, don't call the name too loud? For Christ's sake - are they supposed to whisper it?

Prescriptions by mail were invented for this crazy bitch.

I will be answering the questionaire, but in addition I hereby add a vote for the Paris-free zone. However, I would propose widening the zone to exclude various non-celeb celebs. Other targets would include Paris acquaintance Nicole Richie, Anna Nicole, Tara Reid, Nick Lachey, and others who are famous for little or nothing other than being famous.

I enjoy celebrity news as a nice break from serious news; I read The Fix after all. In fact I'd like more celebrity news, but hopefully with a bit more depth than basically a blog of content that can be found elsewhere. Give me news on Jake Gyllenhaal, Alanis Morissette, Dane Cook, Melissa Etheridge, Seth Green, Sigourney Weaver, heck even Kathy Griffin. At least these few examples have actually DONE something and are INTERESTING even if they aren't your favorites. There are plenty of talented people I'd like to know more about, and being a caricature of an irresponsible spoiled blond bimbo shouldn't be worthy of space on Salon.

I have this mental picture of what it would be like if Salon did more frequent interviews with celebrities asking thoughtful questions and getting responses beyond fluff. After reading a five page lesson on Middle East tensions, one could hop over to the entertainment section and read an also in-depth interview about what it was like to make an award-winning movie, show, etc. to relax a bit. These are published occasionally now, like a 2005 interview with Felicity Huffman. Provide more celebrity goodness, less vacuous merely famous people please.

While you're at it, dump Donald Trump too.