Nanker Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 $315 million having trouble deciding how to divy it up amongst the altruistic anti-capitalists. The Newspaper Guild issued the call for a strike to writers who submit free material to The Huffington Post in the wake of the website being acquired by AOL for $315 million. The money will be paid to the privately owned website's co-founders, including Arianna Huffington, and its private investors. The guild said the site's use of citizen journalists who cover events, mostly political campaigns, for free, and bloggers, who contribute a vast quantity of content to the site, is exploitative. I wonder what the poor people are doing tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 $315 million having trouble deciding how to divy it up amongst the altruistic anti-capitalists. The Newspaper Guild issued the call for a strike to writers who submit free material to The Huffington Post in the wake of the website being acquired by AOL for $315 million. The money will be paid to the privately owned website's co-founders, including Arianna Huffington, and its private investors. The guild said the site's use of citizen journalists who cover events, mostly political campaigns, for free, and bloggers, who contribute a vast quantity of content to the site, is exploitative. I wonder what the poor people are doing tonight. ...waiting for lybob to explain how this isn't evil, but the financial industry is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacka Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 This wasn't exploitative when Zsa-Zsa owned it, but it suddenly is when AOL bought it? She's got a lot of the $315 M. They should be mad at her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
....lybob Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 ...waiting for lybob to explain how this isn't evil, but the financial industry is... I've never trusted Ariana Huffington in fact when I first heard she was a progressive I was shocked because I remember her from Crossfire where she'd fill in for Pat Buchanan, she was so obnoxious and slimy I stopped watching Crossfire when she co-hosted, I don't know exactly when she had her supposed epiphany and changed from gold digging Right wing mouth piece of her Billionaire husband to progressive hero but my guess is when she thought she could turn it into big cash - so I've probably gone to The Blaze more times than Huffington Post, but I do see a lot of HuffPo stuff in derivative form as I enjoy The Young Turks, RT, AlterNet, Democracy Now, News Now, The Real News, BBC news, AlJazeera English, and Firedoglake I find if not explicit HuffPo articles at least a lot of Huffpo covered topics- it's incestuous but it's hard to know who's the initiator and who's the initiated. So the only problem I have with them Boycotting the Huffington Post is that they didn't do it a lot sooner. On a different note the Financial industry is still loaded with crooks and sociopaths and if there is any justice in the world we will soon remedy that problem and simultaneously the starving Polar Bear problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magox Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Arianna was a right wingeR?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Arianna was a right wingeR?? No different than say Ronald Reagan being a democrat until around 1960. Except they went in extreme opposite directions! She married Michael Huffingtion... Republican congressman from Cali... I won't even go there... FWIW (but you probably know): She was born in Greece. From Wiki (I know, a bit lazy): "...In the late 1980s, Huffington wrote several articles for National Review. In 1981, she wrote a biography of Maria Callas, Maria Callas – The Woman Behind the Legend, and in 1989, a biography of Pablo Picasso, Picasso: Creator and Destroyer.[9] Huffington rose to national prominence during her husband's unsuccessful Senate bid in 1994. She became known as a reliable supporter of conservative causes such as Newt Gingrich's "Republican Revolution" and Bob Dole's 1996 candidacy for president. She teamed up with liberal comedian Al Franken as the conservative half of "Strange Bedfellows"[10] during Comedy Central's coverage of the 1996 U.S. presidential election. For her work, she and the writing team of Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher were nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program.[citation needed] She has also made a few forays into acting with roles on shows such as Roseanne, The L Word, How I Met Your Mother, Help Me Help You, and the film EdTV.[11] Huffington's politics began to shift back toward the left in the late 1990s. During the Yugoslav Wars, Huffington opposed United States intervention in the crisis.[12] In 2000, she instigated the 'Shadow Conventions', which appeared at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia and the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles..." Oh... BTW, I never liked her on either side... For 60, not bad looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted March 24, 2011 Author Share Posted March 24, 2011 Arianna was a right wingeR?? Yes. She is also a cannibal as the Left is now appreciating more acutely and with some alarm. They're not on the dinner table - yet, but they've certainly been uninvited to the party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Frenkle Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Nice buy AOL. The Huff Po is such garbage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Nice buy AOL. The Huff Po is such garbage. So is AOL....nice fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Nice buy AOL. The Huff Po is such garbage. But with this purchase AOL just doubled their readership to 40. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 But with this purchase AOL just doubled their readership to 40. Kind of like a junker car I had many years ago. I doubled its value when I filled the tank with gas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted March 24, 2011 Author Share Posted March 24, 2011 Kind of like a junker car I had many years ago. I doubled its value when I filled the tank with gas. Now that's damn funny. I once read a Medical article on the Huff Po that I thought was well written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Now that's damn funny. Not to me. I had to drive the damn thing. And that was when gas was $1.25 a gallon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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