David Talbot

(5 votes)   People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world the more you appreciate a paper like the Times where its family continues to invest in editorial quality and I think it's the truly is the best paper in the world.

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(8 votes)   Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

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(7 votes)   I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate.

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(7 votes)   Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

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(7 votes)   They may be a little more high brow than we are.

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(6 votes)   There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays.

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(5 votes)   A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.

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(5 votes)   My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

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(5 votes)   The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in '90. We were locked in it for a year and a half and everyone came out of it.

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(4 votes)   Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.

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(4 votes)   Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

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(4 votes)   I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as I've told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before we were. And also for Joey and the Suck people.

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(4 votes)   I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.

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(4 votes)   I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.

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(4 votes)   I think we're really getting it right the last few months and hopefully we'll get better and better at it.

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