But you have to bite the bullet. Bill Bass, an analyst for Forrester Research in Cambridge, Mass., thinks Slate is making a mistake by taking the big hit in circulation, which will reduce ad income. It is certainly a tough business. But the barrage of 'zine commentary, columnizing and contrarian analyses of the latest media spins can be numbing, not to say superfluous. We're trying to clear through and sort out the clutter.
Readers are about to render their verdict.