RSSInside Politics Weekend: Hating Huffington
From: The Washington Times | June 28, 2009
Should we fear Arianna Huffington and her mighty HuffPo? Dunno. Should we praise her? Nope, says one critic who examined the underpinnings of the Huffington media empire and emerged unimpressed. “What is the Huffington Post, really? It likes to pretend that it’s a respectable voice in the mediasphere, but it shamelessly pumps up its traffic by being just as trashy as, say, Maxim. It also likes to masquerade as a forward-thinking, paradigm-shifting journalistic institution, but it pays only a handful of actual journalists, and its idea of ‘journalism’ is often downright parasitic of the work of real journalistic institutions,” says …
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