I disagree strongly with their writers for the most part, but was sad when they stopped providing free access to the articles. The pilot guy was cool, and I liked Andrew Leonard's stuff on Open Source.
There was a silver lining to Salon, albeit a very thin one.

Some of the articles that harp on Salon's presumably-inevitable demise point out, quite reasonably, that they could have reduced their burn rate considerably by locating somewhere other than the most expensive part of San Francisco; I mean, you can run a Web site from damn near anywhere, can't you?