Slate dabbles in self-loathing
As part of its ten-year anniversary self-congratulation/-flagellation, the venerable online publication invited some of its critics to comment at length on just why they hate it so. And, well, the critics responded:
Vanity Fair columnist Michael Wolff airs personal grievances with some of Slate‘s editors and describes the webmagazine thusly: “as insufferable as Fox News.” Ouch.
“Overall I find it shrill and superficial, a function of the triumph of the blog,” Salon founder David Talbot harrumphs, before closing his short sneer with “George Clooney is my hero.”
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