With one exception, every single article that Salon has posted about Alcoholics Anonymous (mirror) has been negative. As it turns out, Salon is having financial difficulties and laid off a number of workers (mirror).
I make this prediction: Salon will not be around too much longer. It will have the same fate as Substance, a magazine which was devoted to having an anti-12-step view of alcohol and drug abuse, closing its doors. On the day Substance magazine said good bye to the world, there were thousands of thousands of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings throughout the world, with countless oldtimers telling newcomers how they stayed sober by working the program using the first 164 pages of the Big Book. On the day when Salon closes their doors, there will be countless AA meetings all over the world and countless oldtimers telling newcomers how the 164 keeps them sober. The numerous anti-AA polemics that Salon has published will be relegated to the dustbin of history, and Alcoholics Anonymous will continue to thrive.
My prayers are with the people who have been laid off from Salon, that they find productive work again, perhaps for media outlets more receptive to AA's message, such as NY Mag (mirror).
