Hello, um, fans of children's books. Who cares whether your sexually stunted wizard gets whacked or not, really? There's something more important at stake, and it's the direction of Salon.com. Do you remember The Fix? Did you read it? Were you a fan of Audiofile, and maybe downloaded a song or two? If so, then you might think about joining me in no longer subscribing or even following links on this site that might indicate to Salon and its advertizers that killing off two of its most interesting features (way more interesting than Harry's pet owl--spoiler alert!) was a good idea. If you're confused by this post, read Joan Walsh's heartless blog from Friday, "Goodbye to Audiofile." And if you're still confused, the owl gets it. So sad.

You'd never hear from him again, here. Salon secretly believes Harry wears a Che t-shirt under his cape.

Salon’s Potter coverage has been terrible too. What’s up with ‘spoiler free’ now that the books been out for 4 days? All the militant fans (myself included) have now read the book. The time for spoiler free articles and innocent guess work was last week when Salon was printing articles with spoilers that no real Potter fan would dare click on.

Slate on the other hand seems to be getting better and better…

Salon drops two pop cultural columns and you bitch and moan. Then it does another, conceivably more important, pop phenomenon and you sneer. Here's the deal: Salon used to be a good cultural site with a few stabs now and again at political coverage. now it is becoming a rage factory, hetting up the natives with pseudos like that dreadful Glenn Greenwald. You'd better be happy, anon, with whatever cultural coverage you get, Harry Potter or whatever else. Time's coming that the only cultural content you'll find here is the weekend snarkfest about tv.