Bay Area Reporter :: B.A.R. readers share their memories
Remembering Mike Salinas I freelanced for the late B.A.R. news editor Mike Salinas in the 1990s, sending him political and AIDS-related stories from Los Angeles. As a former mainstream journalist, I often argued with him when he included activist terms under my byline; he once inserted "The Betrayer" in a Bill Clinton photo caption. But we worked well together. Salinas was also insightful. He called me an "environmental reporter" because I wrote about fundraisers in a "you-are-there" style. He was right. I imagined my reader as a homebound person with AIDS who had tickets for the event but wa...
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