Word: kinsley
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DOES MICHAEL KINSLEY KNOW ABOUT THIS? Since 1839, a mineral vein along the Vermont-New York border has furnished slate for thousands of roofs, including that of the White House. The Slate Valley Museum in Granville, New York, documents the quarry region...
...first-person Inaugural Insider column she composed for the online magazine Slate, on which she's an editorial assistant. Her duties usually run to fact checking and headline writing, but given the vantage point she had for the festivities, it's not surprising that boss Michael Kinsley gave her a few screen inches. Gore, 23. seems to enjoy being a Second Daughter: she makes fun of her waving styles. And she wisely defers to the experience of the candidate whose Inaugural this wasn't. "I used to fear falling off the stage," she writes, "but that has become pretty commonplace...
...Some people think it's immoral," he acknowledged. "Clearly, it's going to be a challenge." But yes, he was hoping to persuade at least 100,000 readers to pay up before the end of the year. That would have been something of a miracle, given that by Kinsley's estimate, only 50,000 to 90,000 people read his clever 'zine gratis. What if his readers fled? How long would Microsoft let Slate live? "I haven't been told specifically," Kinsley said, calm as custard, "but everything I've heard says Microsoft won't pull the plug precipitately...
...could hardly touch my morel-sauced salmon, so fixated was I on the dilemma he had placed us in. As the cut-rate Kinsley, I would have to start charging Netly News hounds--what? Nine dollars and ninety-five cents? No way. I happen to know Netly News readers believe in the free lunch. Some have even asked me for small loans...
Perhaps my whining and clutching at Kinsley's ankles that night paid off. Late last week Kinsley informed his readers he had decided to keep Slate free--for the "indefinite" future. "There are too many people who are too damned cheap...er...too engaged by the novelty of the medium to feel the need to pay extra," Kinsley wrote. "Pornographic and financial sites are a possible exception." Financial is out of the question. But I'll take off my shirt if he will...