Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.

I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else.

We are upgrading UEX to a Buy rating; new CEO Roger Lemaitre changes everything.

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.

Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.