The New York Observer
Slate Is Becoming … Salon!

Oh, dear. I hope not... Mainly, this means more cultural (including pop-cultural) stuff, as opposed to politics, not that it will be badly edited, include columns by raving loons, and have almost everything interesting require subscriptions.

Slate has tried to go more pop-cultural in the past. And it almost always backed off in a few weeks. We'll see if Weisberg sticks to it where Kinsley backed off.