Salon.com covers a wide range of topics from entertainment to technology and business to politics. It also publishes opinion pieces that tend to reflect a very liberal point of view, a fact the Web site doesn’t try to hide. Conservatives aren’t included in Salon.com’s targeted audience. This is evident by the most popular stories this week: “Fox News isn’t even pretending anymore” and “I get my investment advice from Glenn Beck,” an article in which the author discusses the right-wing TV personality with an underlying feeling of disdain.
The writing style is conversational in tone. It’s not rigid like some hard-news outlets. Even the headlines have attitude: “Why do Yahoo e-mail users have sucky credit?” and “How do you solve a problem like Ikea?” The latter is about a man in search of a cheap mattress who finds himself in Ikea for the first time. This first-person essay is playful and fun to read and encapsulates the kind of content that sets Salon.com apart from other news Web sites.
