... We intend to take a fairly skeptical stance toward the romance and rapidly escalating vanity of cyberspace. We do not start out with the smug assumption that the Internet changes the nature of human thought, or that all the restraints that society imposes on individuals in "real life" must melt away in cyberia. There is a deadening conformity in the hipness of cyberspace culture in which we don't intend to participate. Part of our mission at SLATE will be trying to bring cyberspace down to earth.
--Michael Kinsley, editor of Slate, in a 24 June 1996 editorial called "Welcome to SLATE: An introduction and apologia"
... Go print. Kill trees. Shoo! Shoo!
--Response from Tish Williams, assistant editor of Upside Online, in a 22 July editorial called "Slate serves up the same old, same old"