To their credit, Salon has coughed up a long list of advertisers and sponsors, which they say is incomplete. It’s jammed with movie studios whose films they review, book publishers whose books they cover, companies they inevitably write about, magazines they link to, and on and on. Perhaps it’s best if I put it this way:
Salon’s advertisers in 2001: Intel, Proctor & Gamble, Audible.com, X10, Lexus, Motorola, Mercedes, Warner Bros, Buy.com, New Republic, McAfee, Harper Collins, NY Times, AT&T Wireless, Lancôme, 20th Century Fox, Oxford University Press, Discover Card, Penguin/Putnam, Inside.com, Diamondology, Gillette, Mercury Mountaineer, Hewlett-Packard, Salomon, Smith Barney, CDW, Virgin Atlantic, The New School, The Street.com, Business 2.0, E Trade, Verizon, Ask Jeeves, Esquire, iPublish, Universal Studios, I.T. World, Grey Mause Records.
andrewsullivan.com’s advertiser in 2001: PHRMA (gratuity).
Now who do you think should be asking whom about conflict of interest questions?
By the way, I’ve also asked Salon for a list of their investors. No word yet. Hmmm. I’ve also asked them if they have ever taken money from a pharmaceutical company. That should be interesting. Inside.com hasn’t responded. One word about their silence: pathetic.
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