"Raise Rush Limbaugh's Blood Pressure! Keep Salon in Business!"

Salon.com ^ | 22 February 2003 | David Talbot

[HighWheeler]

Both had the same question at the same time, didn't we?

[Oztrich Boy]

"You see there is this Vast Right Wing Conspiracy..."

[blackdog]

Salon's board seems a bit white, male, and bigotted.

[qam1]

Am I reading the chart correctly, It looks like Freerepublic lost 3/4 of it's users in one year???

[bmwcyle]

They are not black but they play one at work.

[gaspar]

I have never heard Rush Limbaugh quote Salon. As a matter of fact, I have never heard ANYONE quote Salon.

[Captainpaintball]

It's hard to be profitable when your typical reader expects everything for free, and wants someone else to pay for it...

[Magnolia]

When you publish a rambunctiously independent daily...

Mmmm....about as independent as the DNC.

[litany_of_lies]

Rush doesn't have a message board or chat room, which means that his listeners can get in and out of there in about 10-15 minutes.

Salon has a message board and discussion forums, which keep its traffic up. Plus a bunch lefties who go to the site 4x a day because they think it's their civic duty.

It would be nice if Mr. Talbot gave any indication of caring even a little bit about shareholders who have lost 99.9% of their investment. Of course, he doesn't.

[Porterville]

They haven't a prayer; anyone who can read is a Republican; as long as they print text their target market should be Republican. Now if they put pictures up instead of text then liberals could understand the message. Liberals can't read. Carole Mosley Brahma Bull can't even remember her college major (if she ever went to college).

[Cool Guy]

Am I reading the chart correctly, It looks like Freerepublic lost 3/4 of it's users in one year???

That graph shows the Traffic. John re-designed the Software so the whole page does not load when you access the article to decrease the traffic to the website and thus save on the BW $. That is why we had the decrease in traffic. You should look at he number of people who browse it each day. I know Jim Rob has a website to indicate the number of different posters logging on perday and number of people browsing this website.

[George W. Bush]

With 60% of the nation excluded from Fox News as a cable choice, they still climbed to #1.

No, they had Directv and Dish Network. All of conservative rural America who didn't like the libmedia long before anyone else disliked them. So when Fox News came along, they lived off rural conservatives and it just grew from there. I don't know anyone who doesn't watch Fox. ABCNNBCBS is off the radar in rural America; they're not worth it even though they're "free".

[solo gringo]

I don't see any reason to keep solon up and running.All i've read on solon was hate republican stuff.You gotta know when to hold them and know when to fold them.Fold them has my vote.

[solo gringo]

Solon=salon

[Interesting Times]

Naw, David, you've got us all wrong -- we want Slime to live.

For one thing, your poison-pen artists are so over the top that sane people recoil at first contact. We think of your columns as Helen Thomas for the Web-impaired. Why, I've converted three young bleeding-heart libs to Reagan conservatism in the last week, just by showing them your sob piece defending poor Sami Amin Al-Arian as an innocent victim of mean right wingers. Those kids'll never believe anything you publish again.

But our main motive for prolonging your demise is to leech the rich commies who keep pouring cash into your rathole. We'd really hate to see them spend it on something effective instead.

So party on, dudes.

Fondly,
I.T.

[graycamel]

What's iron city beer? In Florida you can buy a soda called Iron Beer. It's like vanilla coke but ten times better. It was invented in Cuba, of all places. LOL. I'm stuck in Missouri where I have to suffer with coke and pepsi.

[AM2000]

The vertical axis of that graph is the sites rank. Lower is better. Rank 1 gets more users than rank 2, and so on.

[Libloather]

"As Ishmael Reed observed..."

He plays for Dallas - no?

[Libloather]

What's iron city beer? In Florida...

You aren't traveling north often enough...

[okie01]

"Of course every time I get ready to celebrate their demise, some liberal with more money than sense throws a huge wad of cash down the hole that is Salon at the 11th hour."

The usual liberal solution involves copious amounts of "other peoples' money".

Thus, I expect an initiative to merge Salon.com into PBS, thus becoming NPW -- National Public Webcasting.