October 1997

In HotWired, Jon Katz writes about Slate:

Michael Kinsley admitted in the New York Times that the most popular features in Slate weren't original writing, but simply regurgited "meta-features" like "Today's Papers" and "In Other Magazines."

"We argue that reading Slate can save you time," Kinsley told the Times. So would skipping Slate entirely and getting the same magazine summaries on AOL, where they are offered daily.

We needed the nation's best pundit to go to Seattle and do this?