Word: slates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evokes the dusty, wood-ridden, disorganized towns of the Wild West glorified in the Western film genre. However, the colony also reminds us that these towns constituted an actual frontier for the colonists, a territory uncharted for them in which to institute their conception of civilization from a clean slate. The inter-actions between the Americans of the Archbuilder colony seem so elemental, summon such basic dilemmas and yield such unproductive results that the reader can only wonder why the Wild West was not indeed wilder...
...first] slate wasn't particularly diverse," Tan said...
...Slate's Scott Shuger found that although USAT led with the schoolyard shooting in Arkansas, there was other news out there. The NYT led with a green-card snafu at INS, and WP and LAT went with President Clinton's sounded-awfully-like-an-apology-but-wasn't remarks in Uganda over how the U.S. "wronged" Africa with the slave trade. Apparently the comments were impromptu, and are giving aides fits...
Bill Bass, an analyst for Forrester Research in Cambridge, Mass., thinks Slate is making a mistake by taking the big hit in circulation, which will reduce ad income. "As far as I'm concerned, it's an advertising-driven business," says Bass. It is certainly a tough business. Two Webzines, Word and Charged, folded last week, and others like Feed feedmag.com and Suck suck.com are staying afloat largely by operating on a shoestring...
...Slate's move will at least help answer a vital question facing the Webzines: Who needs them? Both Slate and Salon have provided an outlet for provocative writers (Camille Paglia, Jacob Weisberg), clever ideas (Slate's Clintometer, a running gauge of the President's chances of being forced out of office, lately replaced by the Starrometer) and the occasional scoop (Salon's report last week that a group with ties to the Rev. Jerry Falwell has paid $200,000 to people making allegations against Clinton--a charge Falwell's camp denies). But the barrage of 'zine commentary, columnizing and contrarian...