Slate Celebrates Criticism
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From National Review Online's Jonah Goldberg:
"[Slate] is the house organ of the guys who get invited to the professor's house for dinner and come back to the dorm to explain how they corrected their betters about this or that. In fact, Slate's editors are so confident in their own superiority that they have rejected the practice of fact-checking because Slatesters are so good they don't need a net."Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff:
"Slate, like Fox News, is part of the opinion media where even a negative reaction is a positive reaction. To me, the Slate people are insufferable in ways that are quite similar to the ways the Fox people are insufferable—at Fox, they like to be the toughest guys in the barroom; at Slate, the most overachieving guys in the classroom—demonstrating, perhaps, that affect rather than ideology is the culture's most irritating force."Blogger Eugene Volokh was a little less harsh, noting that Slate is "thoughtful, timely, and a pleasure to read," before making three suggestions for how the publication might improve. Check out the essays in full, and as long as we're addressing criticism ... got any for us?