David Talbot Journalist Quotations

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

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

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.

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.

On the other hand, we raised $25 million by going public. It's that money that we used to build this company, to build the circulation, to build a high profile and to hire staff that made Salon what it is today.

You can crash on one set of rocks or the other set of rocks, and they crashed on the other set of rocks, which was probably being too little to be commercially viable.

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

It showed how they came from these radically different family backgrounds, but they were the products of single mother families.

The Internet, of course allowed us to show the world what we can do. It was a way to have a national if not international platform.