Until 5 (?) or so years ago, Avweb was informative and irreverant.
There
was a chuckle in every issue. Then, there was a change of management
and
the irreverance and humor disappeared in the first issue, never to
return.

There's a bit more to the story. The short version is that someone
posted something quite critical of a particular aviation lawyer who
makes his living suing manufacturers, making life difficult (and
expensive) for all of us who fly. It's a pretty good living for him
though - good enough that he can go around crashing warbirds.

He sued AvWeb (since the poster wasn't worth suing) and AvWeb set up a
fund to pay the defense costs, and started asking for donations to fill
the fund. Many donated. Then, instead of carrying it forward as a
freedom of the press/common carrier issue, they caved and used the
donations to pay a settlement. At that point AvWeb became just another
Belvoir publication - same crap as their magazines.

Michael