Letters to the Editor
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Getting our celebrity fix
Salon did it with more class than others, but you're right, there's so much gossip out there cluttering the air.
As a suggestion for something different, how about focusing on the actual work some of those celebrities do to advance a cause? I am not talking about publicity-seeking stunts, but about genuine, good stuff?
While it might be difficult to sort out the good from the skin-deep, it would be refreshing--and who knows, possibly inspirational...
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Talk about a Friday evening news dump!
But I felt less guilty reading the stuff on Salon!
Due to a certain self-promoting fixture on Scarborough Country we'll still have tabloid gossip here!
How about starting a figure skating blog!
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Well, next time
...don't say something is "on hiatus." That sounds like it might come back.
Just link to continous patriotic music. Stirring videos of waving flags would be good as well. Then we'll know whatever it is is dead.
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Oh really?
Pretty funny, considering this is posted under the lead story about Alec Baldwin's outburst. Please.
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just use a blog roll
Just throw up a blog roll listing the Salon certified best of the celebrity rag websites. (Rss feeds could provide you content through content teasers.) Generate traffic for them and work with them to generate traffic for you. Simple.
Where's my cut?
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Sadness :(
The Fix was really a nice little bright spot in what is, unfortunately, often a sea of depressing content. It's great to have a place to keep on top of all the news & politics, but a 5 minute brain-candy respit was a really welcomed part of my day! Please consider bringing back something similar, it really got my mornings off to a good start!
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Who's on?
I always appreciated the listing of who was going to be on the various talk shows and late night shows and frequently found it useful. For example, it was good to have some idea who was going to be on Charlie Rose. I'll miss that.
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no fix!!
Horrid news, and yes, the irony that this story was right below the Alec Baldwin story.
What's wrong with a little distraction from the real news of the day? I can't agree that Salon is all that high and mighty. Couldn't find someone else to take that job? Can't you find a celebrity obsessed intern? I'm disapointed.
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don't be so ashamed of gossip
With Glenn Greenwald busy showing us how essential and important online journalism and blogging has become I think Salon just got embarrassed with its little gossip column, even after making a half hearted attempt to cut back on Britney Spears coverage, a preoccupation a lot less defendable in elite circles than Alec Baldwin I'm sure.
I'm going to miss it. There are lots of places to go for gossip, but I suspect a lot of us won't go there, because, after all, we only read essential and important online journalism.
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The Fix
Aren't you taking yourself a little too seriously? The Fix provided a nice distraction from the intense topics in the rest of Salon, and to say you're dropping it so you can spend your time doing more important (significant? meaningful? righteous?) things smacks of elitism - and dullness.
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Idea for culture type blog
If you're looking for something cultural, I'd like to suggest something like plagiarismtoday.com which looks at Internet culture through the eyes of intellectual property, etc. It would also be a nice technology tie in. The guy there does fantastic work.
Celebrity material is done well enough elsewhere. My favorite part of that was the listings for who would be on what talk show. The rest I just didn't really follow.
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Don't Nix the Fix
I will miss The Fix. If Salon were a person, I always thought s/he would be a bit like how I see myself: politically & socially aware, witty, and deep, but not above some shallow schadenfreude.
Yes, it was available elsewhere, but I liked the digested format. It was a daily guilty pleasure that prevented me from going to hard stuff like TMZ, which is where I've been the past couple of weeks. I hope you bring it back some day.
-longtime premium subscriber
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Too bad the fix is gone
In between checking for updates on the Warroom and other features, I enjoyed the near daily ritual of reading the fix. In many cases it provided better topics for lighthearted conversation than the other news and analysis.
My guess it that, while they may not like to admit it -- lord, knows my wife teased me about whether I'd learned such and such from "the fix" -- many of your most avid readers will be disappointed to learn of this decision.
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Good call
Well said. The Fix was great for its time, but fewer things better is a good mantra. Also, the nature of gossip sites is that hits are generated by less credible, more sensationalist entries, which is counter to what Salon should strive for.
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Thank you Salon
I'm sure The Fix was insightful and well-written, but it gave me the same sort of feeling I get when I see those celeb mags in the grocery store, a kind of revulsion. The presense of that stuff on Salon seemed intrusive. I don't have a TV and don't watch mainstream movies for good reasons, and I didn't appreciate having to see that stuff clutter the Salon front page. I know I'm a snob so no one need waste their time telling me so.
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Awesome.
I totally approve of this move. I'll admit that I couldn't resist reading the Fix while it was around -- but I always felt a little dirty afterwards. It's not that celebrity gossip is bad per se; it's that Salon just isn't the right place for it.
I would take this opportunity to suggest that Salon shouldn't be covering sports, either . . . but I enjoy King Kaufman's writing too much to do that.
Perhaps you can revive this feature when the Global War On Terror is concluded.
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Nooooooo.......
As a subscriber for as long as Salon has HAD subscribers, I have to protest your axing The Fix. The genious of it and its predecessor is that one could quickly scan all the daily gossip in a pre-digested form without having to actually go to those smarmy celeb gossip sites and dig through all the really junky junk to find the most entertaining nuggets. PLEASE reconsider. I HAVE to know something about the celebrity culture, just to carry on a conversation with my co-workers!