Salon Asks for Help

Henry V .009 writes "Salon.com is appealing to the community for help. They haven't been able to pay the rent since December. To date, they've lost about $80 million dollars. A cause of rejoicing for some. But their many readers are understandably sorry to see them in such desperate straits. Personally I hope they stick around, I think they are one of the best sources of independant journalism on the web--even if I happen to agree with less than 10% of what they have to say. I also think that it would be a shame for them to close now that they've finally created an advertising scheme that has a snowball's chance in hell of working on the web. I can actually recall some of the adverts I've seen on Salon--what other web site can you say that about? Salon says that if they get another 50,000 subscriptions (they currently have 50,000) they'll break even for the year." In the old role-playing game "Paranoia", there was a nice quote about what would happen when the player characters (who had never been outside of their enclosed city complex) made an attempt to swim in water over their heads: "delaying drowning".

Comments

Re:You have to ask?

[BrainInAJar]

I actually like MS VC. The IDE's niceish. I could deal with a Vi-like IDE though (which is to say a text editor with syntax higlighting). The compiler is garbage, given. The linker sucks too. But man, MSDN is the shit. If you don't know something, highlight it and press F1, and presto: everything you ever wanted to know about Foo() and then some. Man pages are good and all, but when I program for windows I'm not unhappy that they're missing. MSDN is one of the only really good things MS has done. If MS were to go belly up, it'd be the one thing It'd be the one thing I'd miss.

Re:$30/year is a bargain

[leviramsey]

If Salon goes under, then it's an example of how capitalism can FAIL.

And where is capitalism obligated to keep a site which rarely posts good content (I'm talking sub-Slashdot quality, fer chrissakes!) afloat?

Re:Another Liberal Rag That Will Not Be Missed

[MSTCrow5429]

It's not a troll. Salon is failing, see the uber-parent. Why? Not enough people paying? For what? Liberal garbage. Liberalism does enslave. Communism, socialism, fascism, these are all variants of liberalism. And they weren't exactly known for freedom. *Classical* Liberalism, on the other hand...