Slate Chairman: The Daily Has 'condescending view of the audience.'

Ever since The Daily debuted, people have been lining up to attack it for everything from bugs (it has needed two updates already) to slow loading times. Slate Chairman Jacob Weisberg, speaking to Columbia University journalism students last week, didn’t take issue with the technical side of The Daily, but he did attack pretty much everything else.

He compared the content to that of USA Today (gasp!), and likened it to a star high school quarterback – all flash and no substance.

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