salon stopped being about that though when they ran out of VC money and tried premium paygating and then became bush derangement syndrome hacks while Slate poached everything good

(Amanda Marcotte as a regular under time pressure to try to rouse you about whatever the issue of the day was was the first one that knew how to use her, after in the 2000s she was mooted as an outreach agent and some guy running a old ‘80s Catholic Republicanizing group tried to make a thing about her proving no one in the 2000s knew when they were)

(I think that was her but I think I blended the big pre-vertical feminist blogs in my mind a bit)