Obviously there is no going back to the glory days before these things had to be profitable, when salon dot com had about as much content as the daily beast does now, and (moreover) when they had both Camille Paglia and Greil Marcus writing tremendously entertaining weekly articles.
But the worst thing is that when you go to the articles now, more often than not there is an add with moving images that continue to move the whole time you are there. It's tremendously distracting.
At about the time HTML 4 was invented, and you could do these animated GIF files, all of the books on how to design web sites contained the commandment not to include graphics that continuously move, because they were subconsciously irritating at best. I think this was really good advice.
If salon has an article I want to read I always cut and paste the text into a word document and also try to notice whatever the obnoxious moving add is and remember not to purchase that.
In addition to defending endless apartheid in Israel, The New Republic sins by having the scroll through of their top stories constantly on the move. Again, the Daily Beast is way better, you can pause the damned thing on their site.
