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• Wednesday, April 16, 2008 02:58 PM

  @Glennski

  Glennski! Your experience is much like my own! You wrote:

  Glennski: "I used to consider Salon.com my NUMBER ONE, go-to Web site for political news and insight. In other words, the site to which I go FIRST THING each day when I want to see what's up. For several YEARS this has been the case. Honest to God."

  Me too! I've been a regular reader of Salon since around 1997 or so! Maybe before that! Back when the site design was real skinny and simple.... I've spent an important portion of my adult life as a Salon reader! Enough so that I feel a personal affront when the site is soiled by an editor's bad-faith approach to the readership.

  Glennski: "But after so many, many pro-Clinton and pro-Clinton-but-nuanced and under-the-radar-pro-Clinton articles... I feel that Salon under your leadership has LOST ITS OBJECTIVITY. As a result, I no longer make Salon my first daily news stop. Other sites have taken its place. Sure, I still try to visit Salon each day but it no longer holds its high ranking as the first place I go to get good, solid, alternative journalism."

  I'm getting there too. Not enough to overhaul my habits, but I've definitely developed a different feeling and a different experience with Salon. I'm an old-schooler who used to love reading alternative newsweeklies during lunchtime in high school, laughing at Matt Groening's "Life in Hell" comics (looooong before the Simpsons), buying alternative-press magazines and so on. For me, Salon.com was like the online equivalent of that experience. It was one of the few sites that felt "alive" in the way that those paper publications did.

  Salon has lost something with its partisanship. It's soured something.

  —Xrandadu Hutman Read Xrandadu Hutman's other letters
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