Letters to the Editor
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please save the tv guest list
don't care that much about the fix except that i checked the tv list every day. hope you will keep that. otherwise, gossip is really boring.
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We need
More columns that screech about what bloggers say about other bloggers commenting on our blog which rolls up all the metablog lists. Well that and 90% of the site devoted to Iraq.
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In fact
Get rid of Cary Tennis, the comics, all TV and book reviews unless those reviews are about Iraq.
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Very sorry to see The Fix go...
Please, if I may ask, reconsider your decision. It can't be a good decision for Salon to eliminate a feature that was so clearly enjoyed by a majority of your readers, myself included. And FWIW, I really don't see how including The Fix in the daily lineup prevents Salon from meeting its commitment to more serious fare. Please do reconsider.
Thanks,
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For Your Consideration
I thought The Fix was okay - probably because it read exactly like what it was, culled from other sources. I would hear these items in triplicate throughout the day and didn't care much about most of it to begin with.
What might be a nice experiment is a classier version of The Fix, something with a pre-24 hour cable television feel to it. Reports on real artists and writers as opposed to the adolescent who has made a lot of money on very limited talent.
I'm not suggesting that the same vain, self-destructive tendencies don't exist outside of the ex-Mickey Mouse Club set, but it's usually more pithy and interesting.
I do agree with the others who want the talk show listings to return; I checked those everyday.
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(sob)
I am very sad to read this news, but it is exactly what I was dreading. I have been reading Salon much less faithfully since The Fix went "on hiatus" -- it was always a gentle lead-in into the parade of horror that makes up the rest of the news these days. I would sure love to see something in this vein return at some point.
From another subscriber since the beginning.
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Say it isn't so!
I've been reading Salon for a decade now and have always appreciated the mix of serious news coverage and fun features. While I understand your point that The Fix was a sort of rehash of information I could get elsewhere, I liked the fact that I could get a little gossip and late night talk show listings in one place and amongst more serious fare. I wouldn't want Salon to turn into People, but The Fix was a well written digest of fun mental junk food. And in the midst of such depressing news in general, a little lightheartedness seemed well worth a minute of my time. Please consider bringing it back - I miss it more than I would have expected!
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And Video Dog is Iraqi home movie blogging now
And some rabbits. Better lose the rabbits though. Rabbits do not support the mission.
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Commentators/Blowhards
Please continue to list the guests who will appear on the many daily shows. This was a great help in not wasting one's time on proven morons and/or self-serving bloviators. It was also very helpful in keeping up with commentators' opinions on the always-interesting actions of the current administration never covered by the various media. Thanks.
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The what?
Seriously, I opened it maybe once every other week, mostly because I had looked at everything else and had time on my hands.
The talk show listings sound like they filled a particular niche, though, and it wouldn't take a whole lot of effort to track that info down.
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Daily Show, if not Daily Fix
Please add me to those requesting Salon to continue posting daily the TV talk show line-up that includes the Daily Show, Colbert Report and Charlie Rose. Syndicated TV schedules generally stop at the main network programs. I could program my browser's default home page for this and wait forever while it loads. Or every afternoon I could click on comedycentral.com and pbs.org then wade through series of screens.
A chat show list is a kind service from a daily news generator that keeps paying subscribers coming back.
Be glad we're not begging for a Salon sudoku.
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Help! Somebody Help me!
I dropped in on Salon.com and to my dismay there were gay dwarves happily skipping their way to middle earth. Could someone please crucify the editor!
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The superficial is in us all
Celebrity gossip is like candy, OK for you as long as more nourishing stuff is available to offset the decadent. But most of us have a sweet tooth even if we profess to organic vegetarianism.
A well rounded website accepts that readers are not all socially conscious, upwardly mobile, cyber hippy types toting hessian briefcases and only laughing at politically correct humour.
Just as there are diverse readers, the reader themself often has various and occasionally conflicting media needs. I, for example, don't mind a slice of cutting edge social analysis, a small bite of hard hitting political criticism, and have to confess to finding myself occasionally nibbling on a shallow celebrity glitterati news article.
I just hope that Salon editorial staff don't go crazy and turn themselves inside out trying to please everybody and no-one. We all know that parable. And let's face it, Salon decision makers do not have to use their power to allow readers to run rampart with criticism. Surely, you guys know by now that we consumers are not easily pleased but quick to scathingly condemn?
Don't forget that ultimately, if you get to make the important decisions, then you can stop the rabble from polluting the court and attempting to overrun the castle. But I am aware that sometimes the modern leader is wise to heed the voices of unruly subjects and implement change to meet the majorities current needs.
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You must be joshing
You're *keeping* Video Dog?
Gawd, what a waste of bandwidth. Talk about duplicating a thousand other dedicated (and far better) video websites...
Please. Kill VD now. Put it, and us, out of our collective misery.
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Aw shucks
Reading The Fix let me indulge in the trashy side without having to actually go there. If you must let it go, do consider a we blog roll of the best of the gossip sites or a feed like the news column. Just so it keeps us all from taking ourselves too seriously.
As for a desired new feature: how about samples from the Blogosphere? It's a big world out there – and easy to go down the virtual rabbit hole. I'd love a Salon navigated tour...