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Crossover
Today "Broadsheet" has an article about women's rights and oil economics, and "How the World Works" is discussing motherhood and naturalism. At its best Salon is is a fecund greenhouse for thought that crosses the established limits of discourse — and part of that is cutting against the grain of narrow interest and subject-matter specialization.
Everyone has their "beat," of course, and its thin journalistic ice to talk about cross-pollenation. But it would still be interesting to see what happened if instances of clear crossover were treated as such.
Or maybe it turns out that 90% of the readership that reads one reads the other, too, and I'm just wishing for the bad old days.