"David Talbot" is an American progressive journalist, author and media entrepreneur. He is the founder and former CEO and editor-in-chief of one of the first web magazines, Salon.com.

Talbot founded Salon in 1995, when the web was still in its infancy, and is considered one of the pioneers of online journalism. Under Talbot's leadership, the magazine gained a large following and broke several major national stories. It was described by Entertainment Weekly as one of the Net's "few genuine must-reads".

Since leaving Salon, Talbot has established a reputation as a revisionist historian, working on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy/Kennedy assassination and other areas of "hidden history."

Talbot has worked as a senior editor for Mother Jones (magazine)/Mother Jones magazine and a features editor for The San Francisco Examiner, and has written for Time (magazine)/Time magazine, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and other publications.

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In this environment, what I want to do is take my bet away from crude oil and move it downstream. That way you've got your finger in all the pies.

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When Congressman DeLay gets on the House floor today and accuses us of being in the White House's pocket, it's a bold face lie ... we're not part of the spin machine. What they're threatened by is our independence.

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For the average user, the Internet these days all too often resembles New York's Times Square in the 1980s. It was exciting and vibrant, but you made sure to keep your head down, lest you be offered drugs, robbed, or harangued by the insane. Times Square has been cleaned up, but the Internet keeps getting worse.

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