The Jews behind Salon.com

[Karl Radl]

The Jews behind Salon.com

Salon is one of the premier sources of consumable media for both leftist, feminist and/or ‘minority issues’ activists (i.e. what are commonly called Social Justice Warriors). (1) It has actively courted controversy with articles such as those advocating tolerance for paedophilia as well as arguing for its normalisation. (2) Amongst other things it also publishes a constant stream of invective against straight White men in general and Donald Trump in particular.

Therefore it is of considerable interest just who is behind Salon and more specifically Salon since 2005. Since that was when its founder and long-time editor David Daley left the business. (3) It is certainly this writer’s impression - having compared the articles then and now - that Salon has gotten a lot crazier and more outlandish in its content since Daley’s departure.

When I did some good old-fashioned googling I noticed there was a pattern among its leadership and jewish individuals and interest in jewish-specific issues/subjects. In analysing this I have focused on those with a decision-making capacity in regards to content and the editorial direction of Salon. To their credit Salon, and because it is a small enough operation, has made all of their employees and their job descriptions available on their main website. (4)

I then proceeded to identify the frequent contributors who publish material at Salon and excluded those who publish material very infrequently (i.e. less than once a week) and also work re-posted by Salon from other media outlets. This eliminates content and contributors that are not a frequent part of Salon’s output in addition to those who are only passively published there.

John Warnock, the Chairman of Salon Media Group, is a bit of a non-entity in terms of the publication as there is little record of him actively involving himself in the operations or editorial direction of Salon other than providing large amounts of additional funding to keep the loss-making magazine going. (5)

The responsibility for providing this funding has been shared by Warnock with William Hambrecht, the father of former Salon CEO – and current CFO – Elizabeth Hambrecht. (6)

Interestingly William Hambrecht has significant financial ties and investments in Israel. (7) He also has a history of working with jewish businessmen and activists to advance radical social liberal domestic policies within the United States. (8)

Outside of Warnock and William Hambrecht the decision makers regarding content and editorial direction at Salon are as follows:

Jordan Hoffner (CEO)
Elizabeth Hambrecht (CFO and former CEO)
Matthew Sussberg (Vice President, Sales)
Peter (‘Pete’) Catapano (Executive Editor)
Alex Bhattacharji (Executive Editor)
Erin Keane (Culture Editor)

Of these individuals only Sussberg is jewish and was employed previously by the US Weekly and the Huffington Post. (9)

We’ve already seen Elizabeth Hambrecht’s close links to jews and Israel through her father William; a fact that is also suggested by the fervent opposition to any kind of criticism of jews and the curiously muted anti-Zionism consistently exhibited by Salon’s published material. (10) Additionally Erin Keane has also written rather purple prose about jewish communal affairs at least once. (11)

Therefore since Sussberg is the only jew. It is reasonable to state that jews are proportionally represented in the editorial upper echelons of Salon.com, but what is interesting is that William Hambrecht, Elizabeth Hambrecht and Erin Keane evidentially hold pronounced pro-jewish and/or pro-Israel views in some form.

Those who are either jewish or are known to have pronounced pro-jewish and/or pro-Israel views in some form. Thus make up fifty percent of those with editorial control/influence over Salon’s content.

When we move on to scrutinize Salon’s stable of authors we should note the per week rate adhered to in order to gauge their relative contribution to the publication. Looking through Salon’s articles for the last few weeks – as the writers are not definitively listed anywhere - I have identified the following individuals. Next to their names and positions I have added their mean daily contribution of articles per week calculated over the last month.

Scott Eric Kaufman (Assistant Editor) – 28 Articles
Scott Timberg (Staff Writer) – 7 Articles
Brendan Gauthier (Staff Writer) - 28 Articles
Ben Norton (Staff Writer) - 4 Articles
Sean Mcelwee (Contributor) – 8 Articles
Marc Spitz (Contributor) – 8 Articles
Bob Cesca (Contributor) – 12 Articles
Gary Legum (Contributor) – 12 Articles
Daniel Denvir (Contributor) – 28 Articles
Heather Digby-Parton (Contributor) – 28 Articles
Laura Bogart (Contributor) – 4 Articles

Of these Kaufman, (12) Timberg (13) and Spitz (14) are jewish. Denvir is also likely to be given his shall we say Semitic appearance and apparent obsessive need to defend jews from ‘anti-Semitic conspiracy theories’. (15) Bogart isn’t jewish, but she does like to talk about how ‘terrible the Holocaust was’ and the importance of the ‘Never Again’ mantra for non-jews. (16)

In total these regular Salon contributors publish 167 articles between them in an average week of which on average 43 (or 25.7%) are written by jews (Kaufman, Timberg and Spitz).

If we add in Denvir we get 71 (or 42.5%) of Salon’s regular articles being written by jews.

That is significantly disproportionate to jewish representation in the general US population, which is 2.1%. (17)

Therefore the representation of articles by jewish authors at Salon is either twelve or twenty times (depending whether or not you include Denvir) the jewish representation in the United States.

Thus we can reasonable assert that jews and pro-jewish/pro-Israel interests and views are significantly and disproportionately represented at Salon.com.

References

(1) http://www.amren.com/features/2015/0...uide-to-sjws/; http://www.salon.com/2015/12/31/5_re..._term_partner/
(2) http://www.salon.com/2015/09/21/im_a...ot_a_monster/; http://www.salon.com/2015/09/30/im_a..._hate_machine/
(3) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/10/bo...the-mouse.html
(4) http://www.salon.com/about/staff/
(5) http://edgar.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/..._10q-123112.ht
(6) Ibid.
(7) http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/...l-investments/
(8) Sam Aldrich, 2011, ‘Dancing with the Queen, Marching with King: The Memoirs of Alexander “Sam” Aldrich’, 1st Edition, State University of New York Press: Albany, p. 114
(9) http://www.americanlastnames.us/last.../S/S-169.html; http://www.bloomberg.com/Research/st...rivcapId=90407
(10) Salon agreed to feature content from Mondoweiss in 2012, but contrary to what some jewish bloggers would have you believe: Mondoweiss features a lot of liberal content about American domestic affairs in addition to criticism of Israel.
(11) https://jewishlouisville.org/musical...h-experience/; http://wfpl.org/author/erin-keane/page/10/
(12) https://twitter.com/scottekaufman/st...56772977991684
(13) http://www.artsjournal.com/culturecr...-the-jews.html
(14) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Jewish_surnames
(15) For example: http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...l#.V6h8hvkrLcs and http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/here...-on-christmas/
(16) http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/42596/a...im-brooks.html
(17) http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/.../usjewpop.html

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Thus we can reasonably assert that jews and pro-jewish/pro-Israel interests and views are significant and disproportionately represented at Salon.com.

It would be very interesting to see the results of the same analysis done on other MSM publications (think Time, Newsweek, WaPo, NYT, LAT, WSJ, etc.). I would not be surprised to see similar conclusions.