Salon.com should be renamed WeHateHillary.com

[madaboutharry]

Last edited Tue Mar 29, 2016, 07:40 AM - Edit history (1)

I have read Salon.com for years. For months now, nearly every article either rips Hillary Clinton to shreds or else it sings the virtues of Bernie Sanders. It has become Bernie central. Like I have said in other posts, I will vote for any candidate on the Democratic ticket, but I am really disappointed in the way this has played out on Salon.

[Starry Messenger]

1. I unfollowed all of their feeds months ago.

They retweeted their "Pedos have feelings too tho" article with pride as one of their top stories of 2015 and I'd finally had enough. Slate's been better.

[cosmicone]

2. When Hillary is elected, Salon will be finished.

Their reporters won't have access to anything and will not get interviews. They will write stories about "Vulture behavior at the garbage dump."

[SharonClark]

14. They may be reporters but they aren't journalists

Can you imagine the job interview?
Q: Can you make shit up about Hillary?
A: Sure I can, here's my latest Hillary-hating twitter feed.
Q: YOU'RE HIRED!

[charlyvi]

3. Katrina vanden Heuvel is managing editor of The Nation.

which has endorsed Sanders, but she has nothing to do with Salon.

[madaboutharry]

4. You're right my mistake.

I'll take that out.

[charlyvi]

5. No problem

We Hillary folks just like the correct facts. Otherwise, you are absolutely correct. Salon is a dumpster fire. The Nation is slightly better, but not much.

[GvilleDem]

6. Not news

Salon is an opinional masked as a news site. It makes money the same way all other online 'news' sites do, by getting clicks. What gets clicks? Emotionally-fueled opinionals which say what we want to hear, not what is true.

A lotta people like to bash mainstream news for their bias. Yes, that is true, but the alternative news sources people seek can be even worse. I didn't know just how bad it was until left-leaning news sources finally had something to write about which I disagree with.

Among those I was most suprised by:
The young turks, democracy now, and fair.org

Im left with npr as the only news I feel I can trust anymore, and people say the rich are the problem with this country. I believe its misinformation, and our confirmation bias which keeps them kicking.

[CalvinballPro]

11. ^This, many times over

If you look at some of Salon's worst Dem primary articles, you'll see comment counts in the thousands. Which, for Salon, must be a godsend in terms of ad dollars, but at the cost of their integrity, I don't know that it's worthwhile.

[SharonClark]

15. The Salon comments are the same as on DU and Daily Kos

Except they can devolve into hilarious pissing matches, sometimes among themselves. Funny.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. Salon is where I first read Glenn Greenwald

I was a paying subscriber to the site until I read his shit.

[Gothmog]

7. Agreed

[Thinkingabout]

8. It is okay to read "news sources" if at the same time you recognize they

Are slanted and take the articles with the same reliability as you do the rags, entertainment.

[Light63]

9. Put Huffington Post in Salon's anti-Hillary group as well.

Like this blog:

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/its-time-for-hillary-clin_b_9555422.html

It seems that everyday on Yahoo!'s front page are Huffington Post's pro-Bernie Sandera and anti-Hillary webpages. If you are newspaper, you should stay neutral. Don't be like Fox News.

[CalvinballPro]

10. I've been banned from Salon, because like DU, the Bernie trolls run the comment moderation

And any comment supporting Clinton or defending yourself from trolls will get you banned. I lost an original Salon account I had for over ten years to the Sanders trolls.

That site is garbage now. They will literally hire any white male with an anti-Clinton article to publish. It's disappointing to see, because it makes me question their other non-political articles and the motivation behind them.

[geek tragedy]

13. Amanda Marcotte is a breath of fresh air there.

Her takedown of the Bernie supporters who insulted and catcalled Dolores Huerta was a thing of beauty.

[CalvinballPro]

16. What strikes me is that Salon's BernieBros consistently hold her up as an example of Salon's bias...

...for Hillary Clinton. As if they don't have 10 other authors writing anti-Clinton pieces on the daily. Without even loading Salon, I can rattle off a partial list of authors who are on staff and pro-Sanders.

Andrew O'Hehir
Daniel Denvir
Sean Illing
Ben Norton

And that doesn't even touch on when Salon reposts HA Goodman's nonsense from HuffPo.

Meanwhile, Amanda Marcotte actually covers a broad range of topics, from the campaign to women's rights, reproductive healthcare, and she even appeared to be forced to cover the Republican primary for a time right after she went public with her support for Clinton. She definitely disappeared for a while after that, and her Dem primary content is much more limited lately.

I'm not sure why this gets me so worked up when it's clear the site is trying to drive readers like me out the door. Sad to see a good magazine go bad, I guess.

[Chichiri]

17. Salon? Or HuffPo? nt

[mcar]

18. Same here

I don't even go on there anymore. It's like reading piece after piece by HaHa Goodman.