🐱 Salon struggling to pay its rent

http://nypost.com/2017/08/03/salon-struggling-to-pay-its-rent/

Salon, the struggling digital publisher, is having trouble paying its rent.

A landlord who late last year evicted Salon from its New York offices for nonpayment of $90,000 in back rent is now trying to force the digital publisher to pay more than $700,000 for the unused portion of a five-year lease that is slated to run through September 2019.

Salon had been paying over $300,000 a year to Vbgo Penn Plaza for offices at 31 Penn Plaza, near Madison Square Garden.

By the fall of 2016, according to a suit filed recently in Manhattan state court, Salon had already fallen behind in its rent covering the period from July 2016 to Sept. 30, to the tune of $90,565. Vbgo said it evicted Salon in December and now is trying to get the struggling Web media company to pay up for the rest of the lease.

Salon, which has since set up New York offices elsewhere in Manhattan, declined to comment.

 

[BF 388]

 

[IwegalBadnik]

I read Salon strictly for entertainment value once the last of their decent writers left.

Reading over SJW screeds and "Hillary dindu nuffin wrong" was nice and all, but it didn't impress me any.

 

[Yaks]

And here I thought all the cool new hip liberal "journals" were stationed in California while NYC was for the old white hair journalists. Learn something new everyday!

 

[BatNapalm]

I look forward to dancing on Salon's grave.

 

[escapegoat]

I cannot believe Salon lasted this long.

 

[AnOminous]

I cannot believe Salon lasted this long.

I can't believe it went so quickly from being a middlebrow leftist publication with pretensions to actual journalism to being a pedophile-defending SJW cesspool of absolute shit. And that it's still in existence after doing that.

I can barely remember the last time I read anything there that was informative or useful at all. It's just Buzzfeed-tier shit. In fact, I've read a good article on Buzzfeed itself more recently than on Salon. (Specifically this article on Dee Dee Blancharde, a monstrous Munchausen mom who tormented her daughter and was eventually murdered by her and her boyfriend.)

 

[escapegoat]

I am trying to remember when I thought it went shitty, and like... 2002? Maybe? 2001? Long-ass time ago. It was unreadable garbage by the time Huffpo showed up, and that was what? '04? '05?

 

[RP 520]

I can't wait for other leftist sites to blame Capitalism, Trump, and vast right wing conspiracies if/when Salon goes under.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

I can't believe it went so quickly from being a middlebrow leftist publication with pretensions to actual journalism to being a pedophile-defending SJW cesspool of absolute shit. And that it's still in existence after doing that.

I can barely remember the last time I read anything there that was informative or useful at all. It's just Buzzfeed-tier shit. In fact, I've read a good article on Buzzfeed itself more recently than on Salon. (Specifically this article on Dee Dee Blancharde, a monstrous Munchausen mom who tormented her daughter and was eventually murdered by her and her boyfriend.)

The only good thing I get out of salon articles is when someone I know cites an article to prove their point, then I read the article and come back to explain why the article is bullshit and the person is wrong on every point.

 

[CWCchange]

die salon

Eid, Nolas, Eid!!!

 

[Herbert Hoover]

I can't wait for other leftist sites to blame Capitalism, Trump, and vast right wing conspiracies if/when Salon goes under.

If they declare war on capitalism for their financial woes I might just laugh for the rest of my life

 

[GV 998]

And they say there's never good news anymore

 

[Sperglord Dante]

I can't believe it went so quickly from being a middlebrow leftist publication with pretensions to actual journalism to being a pedophile-defending SJW cesspool of absolute shit.

And they don't even have that anymore. The moment Milo said gay men should fuck younger boys they swept their pedo propaganda under the rug. Salon is shit, spineless lying shit.

 

[thismanlies]

And they don't even have that anymore. The moment Milo said gay men should fuck younger boys they swept their pedo propaganda under the rug. Salon is shit, spineless lying shit.

I remember laughing for a good five minutes when I heard that. The closest any of these people will ever get to looking in a mirror is if they see Republicans doing the same shit they're doing.

 

[r00]

Good, fuck em. I don't care what kind of reach they have, Blogs need a wifi connection and a laptop and nothing more.
Although rent rates like that might explain why they only seem to hire intern-tier journalists.

 

[BubbleButt]

It's German for "The, Salon, The."

 

[Secret Asshole]

I know its a joke, but in NYC, it is. Not as bad as San Fran, but pretty bad. You've got apartment buildings going up in literal industrial districts that are luxury high rises with no food/restaurants or anything around fetching insane sums. You basically need a car (with no parking around either), which defeats the whole fucking purpose of living in a major city.

Anyway, good. Salon can go eat a dick. But seriously, what the fuck was it thinking? The New York fucking Times has struggled with its own rent and its a major international paper. What the fuck are you doing as a clickbait shithole renting out huge office space in one of the most expensive places to rent office space? You don't print anything, your 'journalists' are glorified fucking bloggers, there's no beat to walk or contacts to talk to, why the fuck are you even there?

Rent out an office park in Queens or some shit. Jesus christ. All about appearance with these progtards, not a single ounce of sense.

 

[BF 388]

I know its a joke, but in NYC, it is. Not as bad as San Fran, but pretty bad. You've got apartment buildings going up in literal industrial districts that are luxury high rises with no food/restaurants or anything around fetching insane sums. You basically need a car (with no parking around either), which defeats the whole fucking purpose of living in a major city.

Anyway, good. Salon can go eat a dick. But seriously, what the fuck was it thinking? The New York fucking Times has struggled with its own rent and its a major international paper. What the fuck are you doing as a clickbait shithole renting out huge office space in one of the most expensive places to rent office space? You don't print anything, your 'journalists' are glorified fucking bloggers, there's no beat to walk or contacts to talk to, why the fuck are you even there?

Rent out an office park in Queens or some shit. Jesus christ. All about appearance with these progtards, not a single ounce of sense.

Yeah I've read some articles about the cost of living in NYC, but I daresay it's always been the same since the early 20th century.

 

[Secret Asshole]

Yeah I've read some articles about the cost of living in NYC, but I daresay it's always been the same since the early 20th century.

Its pretty bad, but its getting worse. Brooklyn used to be heavily working class (Italian, Irish, Polish, Black) but now you can expect 2-3k rents with some of the shittiest scenery imaginable. Pay 2 grand and get a glorious view of the BQE and millennial heroin addicts panhandling down below to cars in traffic! All while living in a place that hasn't had the plumbing changed since 1947! Also the infrastructure there which can't support it. Now shit is being built in Long Island City, which has all of 1 subway to get into Manhattan, with apartments going for $3750 a month. Its fucking insane, I don't know who the fuck is stupid enough to buy this shit.

But yeah, Manhattan has always been terrible. But the fact that even the outer boroughs are getting more expensive is relatively new. Most of the people I know who live in Manhattan are in rent controlled. (One guy is paying $700 a month living in an apartment on Central Park West. I am surprised his landlord has not literally murdered him). Rents in that area start at like 3 to 4k and can be up to 26k. To be fair, his apartment is really small, but who cares for that price.

 

[AnOminous]

Good, fuck em. I don't care what kind of reach they have, Blogs need a wifi connection and a laptop and nothing more.
Although rent rates like that might explain why they only seem to hire intern-tier journalists.

Also, intern jobs are by their very nature for the rich.

Who can afford to go to college and then WORK FOR FREE at the same time?

People who need jobs who are going to college work at actual jobs. They wait tables. They are bike couriers. They do shit that involves actual work, do their course work, and pass out at night exhausted from all that they do. Then they wake up and do that again.

They do not have the option of working for free at a job where they do nothing but chimp out about microaggressions all day.