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Joan,
Please. Points for at least mentioning that the Fix is being canceled, but don't try to spin it as something that improves Salon.
I was a subscriber for years until the percentage of election blather began to crowd out the actual investigative journalism, presumably because election blather is cheap but Phil Robertson actually needs to get paid to sneak into Iraq and write war coverage and investigative journalism. Sad to hear that writing a gossip column summary requires more actual journalistic research than just spouting off about the next election.
Besides, as others have pointed out, to have your lead article about Alec Baldwin's self-flagellation after being caught making an angry-dad call to his daughter? In what universe is this not celebrity gossip? Ditto the fanboyish "I saw John Edwards in the shampoo aisle! Squee!" bit of celeb-spotting that tried to pass itself off as election blather?
Here's a suggestion on how to keep the Fix: make it the spot for all the other columnists to dump all the amusing cheesy-poof fluff they find in researching their regular stories and patch it together from that. Heather can cover the tv celebrities like the Baldwin nonsense which of course has nothing to do with his acting. King can cover whatever silliness is going on in the sports world that has nothing to do with actual sports. The various political bloggers you're employing as columnists can put in the crap about John Edward's hair. Then let an intern with his or her ear to the ground cover the gaps. There, you have the Fix.
Will it be as good? Maybe, maybe not. But it will at least keep Salon from turning completely into a left-leaning election blog.
And for Pete's sake, drop the cutesy bunny videos from Video Dog.
