En achetant Slate, publication exclusivement online lancée par Microsoft, le Washington Post, société connue pour la qualité de ses publications papiers, prend doublement position.
J’aime bien le billet posté par Scott Rosenberg responsable de Salon, l’autre grande publication online (indépendante celle-là):
Any way you cut it, keeping a high-quality Web site going is not easy (I say that from intimate experience), and persuading another business to buy in represents a real achievement. We can assume everyone involved did this out of faith in Slate as a publication.