Oh, good, I was worried about Arianna's retirement fund.
I quit reading HuffPo about a year ago. They were getting more and more AOL-like with all the interactive gimcracks so this move makes sense in a "world's going to hell" way.
First she was a Republican; then a Democrat; then she made blogging safe for Hollywood; now this.
Even harsher assessment
" Daou, the former Internet director for Hillary Clinton for President, whom The New York Times once described as “one of the most prominent political bloggers in the nation,” says the dénouement came for him when he picked up a March 2010 Wired magazine profile of Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger and agent provocateur, in which Breitbart brashly claimed that he had created the Huffington Post. “I drafted the plan,” Breitbart said definitively. “They followed the plan.” When Wired asked Huffington to respond to Breitbart’s statement, she could barely contain herself. Although admitting that he helped with the strategy, Huffington said that Breitbart “wasn’t present” at the seminal December 3, 2004, meeting at her Brentwood mansion, where the idea for the Huffington Post was hatched—and therefore could not possibly have been the originator."
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- mark 2-07-2011 8:10 pm
I quit reading HuffPo about a year ago. They were getting more and more AOL-like with all the interactive gimcracks so this move makes sense in a "world's going to hell" way.
First she was a Republican; then a Democrat; then she made blogging safe for Hollywood; now this.
- tom moody 2-08-2011 4:07 am
Even harsher assessment
- tom moody 2-08-2011 3:50 pm
" Daou, the former Internet director for Hillary Clinton for President, whom The New York Times once described as “one of the most prominent political bloggers in the nation,” says the dénouement came for him when he picked up a March 2010 Wired magazine profile of Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger and agent provocateur, in which Breitbart brashly claimed that he had created the Huffington Post. “I drafted the plan,” Breitbart said definitively. “They followed the plan.” When Wired asked Huffington to respond to Breitbart’s statement, she could barely contain herself. Although admitting that he helped with the strategy, Huffington said that Breitbart “wasn’t present” at the seminal December 3, 2004, meeting at her Brentwood mansion, where the idea for the Huffington Post was hatched—and therefore could not possibly have been the originator."
- bill 2-08-2011 9:06 pm