Slate (magazine)
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Slate is an online newsmagazine created by Microsoft in 1996 as part of MSN. On December 21 2004, it was bought by The Washington Post.
Former political correspondent Jacob Weisberg is the current editor and the Washington Post Company's Cliff Sloan is publisher [1]. The founding editor was Michael Kinsley.
Like Salon.com, it covers politics, arts and culture, sports, and news. Slate is a hybrid of traditional news outlets and blogs; it is column-driven but maintains more journalistic credibility and objectivity than most blogs. It also features an interactive user forum called The Fray [2] where reactions to columns (or whatever strikes one's fancy) may be posted and discussed.
Slate features regular and semi-regular columns such as Explainer, Human Guinea Pig, and Dear Prudence, which is great. Many of the articles tend to be short and relatively lighthearted pieces. There are also many meta-columns: collection and analysis of major newspapers, magazines, blogs, and the like. It has a number of associated blogs, including some of the most notable on the Internet, such as the Kausfiles. It also features regular weeklong series of diaries from interesting people and a link to each day's Doonesbury, whose website Slate hosts.
Slate contributes to the National Public Radio show Day to Day.
Slate also features a set of online forum boards called Fray, the editing and moderator duties of which are left up to a "Fray Editor," currently Kevin Arnovitz.
Editorial Bias
Slate's main focus and editorial slant is almost entirely liberal, in choice of columnists, choice of topics, and position on topics. Their articles have all the truth, substance, and trustworthiness of the average Indymedia rant. It is no coincidence that the only comic featured on Slate is the unabashedly liberal Doonesbury.
This slant also extends as far as freedom of speech on the Fray forums, where the Fray Editor is more likely to delete a thread or ban a user for disagreeing with the pro-liberal, pro-homosexual groupthink than for any violation of the stated "Rules of the Road".
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Columnists
- Henry Blodget ('Go East, Young Man')
- Paul Boutin ('Webhead')
- Mary Baine Campbell ('Poem')
- Elisabeth Eaves ('The Best Policy')
- David Edelstein ('Movies')
- Mia Fineman ('Art')
- Daniel Gross ('Moneybox')
- Margo Howard ('Dear Prudence')
- Fred Kaplan ('War Stories')
- Mickey Kaus ('Kausfiles')
- Steven Landsburg ('Everyday Economics')
- Josh Levin ('Sports Nut')
- Dahlia Lithwick ('Jurisprudence')
- Eric Liu ('Teachings')
- Stephen Metcalf ('Books')
- Timothy Noah ('Chatterbox')
- Meghan O'Rourke ('Culturebox')
- Josh Patner ('Fashion')
- Robert Pinsky ('Poetry editor')
- Daniel Politi ('Today's Papers')
- William Saletan ('Frame Game')
- Jack Shafer ('Press Box')
- Dana Stevens ('Surfergirl')
- Chris Suellentrop ('Ballot Box, Assessment')
- Garry Trudeau ('Doonesbury')
- Eric Umansky ('Today's Papers')
- Jacob Weisberg ('Bushisms')
- Emily Yoffe ('Human Guinea Pig')
Other notable contributors
References
- Slate Magazine Official website
- Galaxy Quest - Wikipedia is a real-life Hitchhiker's Guide: huge, nerdy, and imprecise. By Paul Boutin Posted Tuesday, May 3, 2005, at 2:37 PM PT on Slate Magazine. Paul Boutin compares Wikipedia to the Encyclopedia Galactica and The Hitchhiker's Guide mentioned in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and shortly talks about Wikipedia's Slate Magazine article. Readers comment on the article in Slate's Internet forum, The Fray.