David Talbot

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause. ↗

— David Talbot

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There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays. ↗

— David Talbot

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

— David Talbot

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I don't think we would still be here if we hadn't gone public. ↗

— David Talbot

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I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges. ↗

— David Talbot

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I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as I've told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before we were. And also for Joey and the Suck people. ↗

— David Talbot

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

— David Talbot

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I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out. ↗

— David Talbot

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I think we're really getting it right the last few months and hopefully we'll get better and better at it. ↗

— David Talbot

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I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate. ↗

— David Talbot

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