The media vultures continue to circle over Salon, hoping, for whatever schadenfreude-fueled reasons, that all the noise about our imminent demise might actually be true this time around. We’ve learned, pretty much, to live with that around here, continuing to do our jobs and grateful for the strong support we receive from our subscribers. But sometimes something comes along that must be commented on.
In a piece in the Online Journalism Review titled “Salon to Leave Bloated Carcass?,” Mark Glaser half-heartedly surveys the landscape of Salon-deathwatch coverage. He cites my post of earlier this week, then approvingly quotes a post from this blog’s comments board (he calls it “more believable”) that criticizes Salon’s business acumen.
Glaser doesn’t seem to have noticed that this anonymous poster’s pseudonym, “Bay Aryan,” is indicative of his political perspective — which is, shall we say, somewhere in the general vicinity of Adolf Hitler. It would have taken Glaser about 30 seconds to scroll down in this blog’s comments and find sage commentary from “Bay Aryan” like this: “Hey, Scott Rosenkike, I hear that Salon might go bankrupt at the end of the month! Woohoo! Death to the liberal Jew-run media!”
So thanks to the Online Journalism Review for striking one more blow toward granting anti-Semitism some badly needed credibility. It’s this kind of careful vetting of sources that has made the OJR into the power that it is today.
My attitude towards the comment boards here has been the usual online approach of “let a hundred flowers bloom, and ignore the occasional weed.” I’m happy to say that the other posters who occasionally comment — whether they agree with me or disagree — have generally managed both to remain civil to one another and to give the likes of “Bay Aryan” a cold shoulder. How ironic that it’s a “Journalism Review” that fails to make such distinctions.
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