WTF!!! Huffington Post is becoming another Drudge

[bigdarryl]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

[ProSense]

1. Why the drama?

The headline is hardly worth it.

[KoKo]

14. I don't know, either. I do know that Tina Brown of "Daily Beast" ruined the "New Yorker Magazine."

So there is some Publishing Blow Back way beyond Drudge at work out there at the demise of "Newsweek" to being "eaten up" by Brown's "Daily Beast."

Some humor there..."Daily Beast eats up News Weak" :rofl:

Still that Brown has that much influence after here demise at the "New Yorker" does have some legitimate Publishing Crowd really angry.

Link from "Salon Mag." "Tina Brown Ruined the "New Yorker Magazine."

http://www.google.com/search?q=Tina+Brown+Ruined+the+New+Yorker+Magazine&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

[vaberella]

35. MO of the OP?n/t

[polichick]

2. I'd like to think the prez and congress will prove them wrong...

...by bold moves during the lame duck session. What about all those bills passed in the House? Let's get some of them to the Senate and force the other side to vote against the people. There's a lot to be done if there is the will and leadership to do it.

[flamingdem]

3. Slow news day, time to diss Obama at HuffPo nt

[BlueCaliDem]

21. Yep Arianna is not charmed by the President, but she's also friends with Newt

and he's no friend to any Democrat, so that doesn't really surprise me.

What does surprise me is Barbara Walters palling around with Newt. I mean, she wants to be a neutral talking head, right?

[LawnLover]

32. I pal around with a lot of Republicans

That doesn't mean I'm a Republican or that I lean right, and they know very well what my political stance is. We avoid talking politics.

It actually IS possible to have friends with opposing viewpoints. And I'll tell you that these friends are actually very good people who sincerely believe what they believe. I may think they're deluded politically, but I try to look at people as WHOLE beings, rather than simply the parts I don't like.

Maybe Barbara Walters and Arianna do the same.

[BlueCaliDem]

33. So do I, but I'm not professionally or politically involved with them

and I don't make any money off of being a neutral news source, either.

That's the difference.

Both Arianna and Barabara are in the business of reporting to the public, and they make hundreds of millions off of being a news source with integrity.

After seeing the changes on HuffPost, I'm seriously doubting she can keep her personal and professional integrity. And that goes for Walters, as well.

[LawnLover]

34. Barbara hasn't been in the reporting business for

years—she does celebrity interviews and has a "women's" opinion show.

Arianna has a left-leaning news blog. I'm not sure what personal or professional integrity you're alluding to.

[martymar64]

37. Barbara used to pal around with Roy Cohn during the 70's

Strange bedfellows indeed.

[BlueCaliDem]

38. Huffington, Walters, and Gingrich make for strange bedfellows

and it doesn't matter if Walters hasn't been in the reporting business for years. Fact remains, she IS a reporter and Gingrich IS a rightwing hack.

That Arianna has a "left leaning blog" should also raise some flags after she's been seen vacationing with the likes of Newt Gingrich. The photo I've included was just taken this last summer, consequently also around the time the Huffington Post was going Drudgy all of a sudden.

But according to you there's nothing to see here. Move on. Me? I'm not that easily fooled.

[HipChick]

4. I gave up on HP anti-Obama rhetoric a while back

sometimes it feels that this place is headed down the same path

[firedupdem]

5. becoming? n/t

[still_one]

6. first all, have you been out of the country? huffington has been trashing the Obama administration

for over a year, some justified, some not, and as for news in general, it is mostly gossip and innuendos, without a lot of consideration to facts

The purpose of that site, as the drudge is to be inflammatory and controversial so they get hits, and thus advertising

It should be pointed out that huffington was a repuke, who was leading the battle cry to impeach clinton, and whose good buds are people like Darryl Issa. It was only after her husband left her for another guy, that she suddenly overnight became a "democrat", which was most likely her way to get back at him, a republican.

[savalez]

8. I think Arriana also has the hot's for Palin.

Not a day goes by without a picture of that toxic nincompoop on the front page.

[bigdarryl]

12. I'm not going there

[HipChick]

18. I'm going to go there...

They used to heavily moderate any anti-Palin comments...but anti-Obama ones seem to get through

[emulatorloo]

9. Good analysis of HuffPo (getting hits = bigger ad rates = $$$$) As to Arianna's conversion

my uncharitable opinion is that she was having a hard time competing with Ann Coulter and Barbara Olson for airtime as an OUTRAGED conservative. Less competition on the liberal side.

[jonnyblitz]

13. umm, Barbara Olson died on the plane that crashed into the

Pentagon on September 11 when she was on her way to appear on the Bill Maher show. She isn't around to "compete" with anybody. :crazy:

[still_one]

27. I think it was a generalized statement that the repuke talkers are a pretty saturated field

since something like 80% of broadcast radio is right wing

[emulatorloo]

31. During Clinton Blow Job period, it was Arianna, Ann, and Barbara Olsen competing for airtime

Of course I know she died on 9/11.

[still_one]

26. I think your analysis may be pretty accurate in regard to repuke talking head competition /nt

[Skittles]

28. trashing it?

or telling it like it is? Summers is pure garbage, and a HUGE mistake by Obama

[stray cat]

7. Do you also think DU is becoming another Free Republic?

[BlueCaliDem]

22. Sometimes. eom

[tomie]

10. Hold up

Huffington Post is the most progressive website I go to for news. I visit here, too, from time to time (can't remember my username since I barely post here), but if people here are going to criticize HuffPo for criticizing Obama on good grounds, then wouldn't the people here be pro-Democrat more than pro-progressive? Pro-party over pro-values?

[dennis4868]

17. Try the Daily Dish or TPM......

[emulatorloo]

11. WOW, looks like AP is taking more "demonic photos" of Obama. They must have to work

pretty hard to get an ugly picture of him, LOL.

[Pirate Smile]

15. It has been like that for a long time now.

[liberalmuse]

16. FluffPo has been that way for a long time.

I hate that I still go there. I haven't gone to 'Drudge' in over a decade, and quit 'Politico' a couple years ago, but am having a hard time quitting the Huff Po tabloid BS.

[savalez]

19. "FluffPo" < -- funny!

[savalez]

20. Sucks that BO actually encouraged people to

find other sources for their news - like HuffPo. I bet he regrets that now.

[jefferson_dem]

25. BO?

Really? Obvious much?

[RandomThoughts]

23. They used complex images in their posting.

So they have some marketing experts on the staff over there, they might not know it, but some of the uses of images there shows a slant different then what the articles say.

:shrug:

Posted about that long ago.

[jefferson_dem]

24. "becoming"?

Haha... Where have you been?

[SidDithers]

29. K&R...nt

Sid

[Codeine]

30. HuffPo has always been garbage.

It is to DU's detriment that it is ever taken seriously around here.

[JamesA1102]

36. It became another Drudge a long time ago.

Arianne was a republican once and she's headed in that direction again.

[PBass]

39. Huff Post does kinda suck, with their over-inflated headlines

and all the celebrity gossip, shopping tips, foodie stuff, "Man eats HIS OWN HEAD" exploitation news, etc.

I want political news and smart analysis, not a website that tries to be about everything.