Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don’t have to scrap for a living. David Talbot Read Quote
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. David Talbot Read Quote
My favorite thing is still journalism. I’m almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college. David Talbot Read Quote
When you’re kept by a patron you don’t have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that’s a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you. David Talbot Read Quote
The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war – which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country – and there wasn’t enough critical reporting about it and that’s why it’s gotten out of hand. David Talbot Read Quote
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. David Talbot Read Quote
On the other hand, we raised $25 million by going public. It’s that money that we used to build this company, to build the circulation, to build a high profile and to hire staff that made Salon what it is today. David Talbot Read Quote
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. David Talbot Read Quote
Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products. David Talbot Read Quote
