HuffShow? Arianna Huffington’s new TV showArianna Huffington, matriarch of the all-aggregating, all-blogging white hot mess that is The Huffington Post, is trying her hand at TV producing, with a new sitcom about congressmen… who are also housemates! Sounds like comedy gold.
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HuffPo pushing past politics
More than half of The Huffington Post’s traffic now comes from people who aren’t interested in politics, according to The Huff herself. With that in mind, the aggregating empire is set to roll out sport, books and technology sections over the next few months.
HuffPo’s unhealthy quackery
Pay peanuts… It’s one thing for The Huffington Post’s army of unpaid bloggers to pontificate on politics, but when it comes to science and medicine, it’s just irresponsible to publish the crackpot theories of unqualified, self-appointed “experts” says doctor Rahul K. Parikh.
Huffington Post: cheap, trashy and parasitic
The Huffington Post “likes to masquerade as a forward-thinking, paradigm-shifting journalistic institution”, says Simon Dumenco, but they don’t pay most of their writers, and leech most of their content from “real” journalists.
HuffPo’s front page: only 6% original content
Bloggasm uses the power of maths to assess whether the Huffington Post is ” making a significant contribution to original reporting.” The result? Not so much.
Arianna Huffington: all puff, no substance
Perhaps it is a mistake to hold Arianna Huffington to any real standard of intellectual or journalistic rigor. She is just an adventuress, ideologically and socially. Isaac Chotiner reviews her latest book.
The award for the most bitterly ironic media award goes to…
Why is Syracuse University giving a journalism award to Arianna Huffington — a woman who thinks journalists should work for free? asks Simon Dumenco.
Huffington: How we respond to torture will define us
How the US responds to the revelations about the Bush administration’s use of torture will define the country, writes Arianna Huffington.
Get over it media giants, we’re going to co-opt your copy
Borrowing, sponging, lifting, scrounging, leaching, pinching, and outright theft of other publications’ work is firmly in the American journalistic tradition, says Slate’s Jack Shafer.
Media briefs: Murdoch Twitter rumours… Swedes tattoo magazines to save trees…
Today’s headlines about the headline makers.
Media briefs: No guests at Sky Canberra… Naked journalism at The Age…
Sky News: no cameraman, no guests, just straight talking news … Subless n-ked journalism … Mags tap into reader generated content … Google Mail goggles … Arianna’s New Yorker moment … The Beast is born
Scoop! John Howard takes his ‘insight’ to the world
Former Prime Minister John Howard has signed with powerhouse public speaking agency Washington Speakers Bureau, writes Christian Kerr.
