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Salon, Nearly No Money and Ultramercials
Adam9 writes "As Salon fights for survival, they have introduced a new advertising program that allows you to receive a free 12 hour pass by clicking through about 10 seconds of advertisements. Currently, the advertisements are from Mercedes-Benz. According to the article, they've lost about $79.7 million from their start in 1995. They also have about 45,000 subscribers right now." Jamie also pointed out this article from the WSJ, as well as the words from Salon themselves about it.
[To paraphrase the *BSD is dying trolls]
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Salon.com is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Salon.com community when IDC confirmed that Salon.com market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Salon.com has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Salon.com is collapsing in complete disarray.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Salon.com's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Salon.com faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Salon.com because Salon.com is dying. Things are looking very bad for Salon.com. As many of us are already aware, Salon.com continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
All major surveys show that Salon.com has steadily declined in market share. Salon.com is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Salon.com is to survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers. Salon.com continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save Salon.com from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Salon.com is dead.
Fact: Salon.com is dying
Trolling is a art,
and good riddance. Salon was just waste of good bandwith.
I never bothered to go there, too many free news sites and such.
I do get really turned off on the liberal media. Did anyone see Aaron Brown crying on CNN when the republicans won this last election? That was the last straw for me. American media is just way to liberal these days, purposely inflating issues to gain votes/ratings.
The media is supposed to be impartial, reporting the facts and leaving us to draw our own conclusions. I can't think of a single media outlet that is friendly to that notion.
Could you point out this right wing media plz? It's been quite a while since there was a right wing centered media outlet, everything is liberal 24 hour news like CNN.
Accurate is in the eye of the beholder these days, especially if you are claiming liberals are accurate. I think you are in serious need of a dose of Rush Limbaugh.
You must be liberal, you absolutely twisted every fact to your own distorted end.
Whats a matter, no one buying your bullshit anymore? lol
Shut it down, retire gracefully, and go get real jobs or start a real company with a real product or service...
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It seems pretty obvious that the chorus of complaints about the "liberal media" are a right-wing ploy to make sure the media are anything but. The unprincipled air-heads who make up the majority of corporate media workers want to make everyone happy, the better to sell product.
Right wingers, long aware of the value of a well orchestrated campaign, endlessly scream and whine "liberal media!." In response the media goes right wing. Repeat ad nauseum for 20 years, and look at what we've got today: a national 24/7 advertisement for the RNC.
The whinefest about the Wellstone memorial was the latest highly effective intimidation campaign by the right-wing media. It worked like a charm.
It seems pretty obvious that the chorus of complaints about the "liberal media" are a right-wing ploy to make sure the media are anything but. The unprincipled air-heads who make up the majority of corporate media workers want to make everyone happy, the better to sell product.
Right wingers, long aware of the value of a well orchestrated campaign, endlessly scream and whine "liberal media!." In response the media goes right wing. Repeat ad nauseum for 20 years, and look at what we've got today: a national 24/7 advertisement for the RNC.
The whinefest about the Wellstone memorial was the latest highly effective intimidation campaign by the right-wing media. It worked like a charm.
Oh, and to stay on topic: Salon is great. Other then for Horowitz and Sullivan, I'm completely happy about spending $30 for a premium subscription.