The Huffington Post is now OFF my daily reading list.

[cleanhippie]

There were many things leading up to this, including the sell-out to AOL, without any compensation to the bloggers that made that site successful drove me to the edge.

But the recent addition of ANDREW fucking BREITBART to the list of contributors was my breaking point.
It is my own personal boycott of HuffPo. Never going back. Not now. Not ever. Unless things change over there, it no longer holds any credibility for me.

Anyone agree or disagree?


On edit: If you think you can stand it, here it is. Try not to gag...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrewbreitbart/npr-is-collateral-damage-_b_834482.html

[ananda]

1. They've been off my list since I learned about the slave labor.

nt

[Taverner]

2. Slave labor? Explain.

Not that I don't believe you, but just want to know what you mean

[tinrobot]

15. They don't pay most of their writers.

[brooklynite]

17. ...who chose to write voluntarily.

Nobody was forced to provide content.

[Swede]

42. Then she sells for $350 million.

Not cool.

[LynneSin]

21. How can you compare what one wrote voluntarily to those forced into hard labor against their will?

I mean that totally boggles the mind.

From what I know with HuffPost and I was a committed reader there for years, is that it was a forum where people would be allowed to write articles and have them published. No one was forced to write those articles, no one was dragged from their homes in the middle of the night and forced to work inhumane hours writing those articles. They were all voluntary.

However having this Breibart on their staff DOES offend me and I won't read them anymore.

[abelenkpe]

3. Andrew Breitbart is a contributor? nt

[cleanhippie]

24. Yep. Here's the link, if you can stomach it.

try not to gag.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrewbreitbart/npr-is-collateral-damage-_b_834482.html

[ixion]

4. I stopped reading them when their reporting went tabloid a couple years back

it just got to the point that it wasn't worth the time.

[closeupready]

19. +1 - more appropriate name

would be The Kardashian Post.

[regnaD kciN]

26. Their reporting "went tabloid" the day it opened...

[northoftheborder]

5. WHAT???????????? BREITBART?????????

It wasn't that good anyway, but it is OFF my bookmark list as of now.

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[cleanhippie]

25. I know. Take a look.

Fair warning, its nauseating...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrewbreitbart/npr-is-collateral-damage-_b_834482.html

[hlthe2b]

6. Agree...

There's a real opening for a competitor now as a central news compiler... The RW has always had Drudge (as disgusting as that might be) and for a while the Left/Centrists had HuffPO. Current competitors are just a little shy of that particular niche.

Of course DU remains the best place to quickly find out what is happening across the world, but it would still be nice to have a central progressive compilation site for multimedia and all the other bells/whistles.

[JDPriestly]

18. Here is an idea for a news website:

Get a bunch of linguists who read foreign newspapers to set up a worldwide news survey site.l

I read French and German. So does my husband.

But I don't read other languages well enough to translate.

If you think this is a good idea, contact me by DU mail.

[hlthe2b]

28. I think that is a tremendous idea...

But my knowledge of foreign language is limited to minimally passable spoken abilities and I would be a frightening (or funny) source for translation....

Let me let this sink in a bit. I do like the idea a great deal.

[northoftheborder]

43. VERY good idea.

[MineralMan]

7. It was never on mine. Arianna Huffington is a Republican.

Always has been. I knew her in California.

[truebrit71]

8. Haven't been there since the day Arianna announced her sell out...sorry, 'buy out'...

...then I find out that serial liar Andrew LieBart blogs there...WTF?

[GodlessBiker]

9. I've cut back a lot and will just eliminate them now.

[abelenkpe]

10. Where did you see that...is there a list of contributors?

Maybe we should all write and see if we can get Huffpo to get rid of him? It does really make them less credible and I'm sure all the liberal friends I know would be horrified.

Any info appreciated!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. If you have the stomach you can look for yourself here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrewbreitbart/npr-is-collateral-damage-_b_834482.html

They can go fuck themselves. This jagoff doesn't deserve yet another platform.

[abelenkpe]

33. Exactly

I'm going to write to huffingtonpost complaining about this and let all my friends know that this POS has been added. I imagine they will be very upset and do the same.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

37. As some people stated the whole AOL thing was bad enough. But that

now makes me think there was another part of this deal that wasn't talked about in public by ms Huffington.

[DCKit]

11. I think it's wonderful that AOL spent ~$350 million on such a dog.

Within a year, the shareholders are going to want to burn management at the stake.

[Jazzgirl]

12. When I read (on DU) notsobritebart had been aded as a

contributor I went over to HP site and deleted my profile. After the merger with AO-Hell I thought I'd see what direction they were going to go before I decided finally to move on. That was all it took. I don't understand why they would hire someone with no journalistic integrity, a proven liar an supporter of a proven thief and liar, to contribute anything to the site.

[LynneSin]

22. I was the same exact way - I wanted to give them a chance after the AOL thing

Chance ruined. nuff said

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

14. Only 3 years behind the times.

:applause:

[GentryDixon]

16. I took it off the day

she sold out. I have not missed it at all.

She started showing her true colors after Obama was elected. I visited her on occasion, usually when someone posted a link, but after the AOL deal it was sayonara (a tip of the hat to our friends in Japan).

[LynneSin]

20. I let the AOL thing slide with HuffPost but not this - not this at all

I'm zapping it from all my toolbars

[Dappleganger]

23. Yes, I did the same. Removed the links and no longer sharing

on twitter. Also asked them to delete my account there and told them why.

[cleanhippie]

27. You can read the garbage here.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrewbreitbart/npr-is-collateral-damage-_b_834482.html

:puke:

[pokerfan]

29. For me it was the junk science and woo-woo

Buh bye, Arianna...

[cleanhippie]

38. That was also a factor for me.

[SpiralHawk]

30. Shitcan the Huffsters (R)

They done embraced Republicon Family Pharisee Values...Ptoooey on all that.

[Pryderi]

31. I wish people would stop using them here. I've been using TPM.

[mod mom]

32. I just left a derogatory post on a Ken Blackwell blog. Isn't new.

[mmonk]

34. And people here complain about FireDogLake.

What a joke.

[PBS Poll-435]

35. FDL is next! 'Hugh' Buyout'! KableTown will scoop up the 'Lake' soon, I am sure

Winning!

[mmonk]

36. Everything will be bought up before long.

FireDogLake is a member site now. Wonder if that will make a difference?

[SoCalDem]

39. No matter.. Arianna got her money.. watch it fail, and she'll have yet another epiphany

and start over.:grr:

[cleanhippie]

40. Kick for the night shift.

[HuckleB]

41. I lost trust for most of the site when it went with so many faith healers...

... as "health care experts."

It's a ridiculous site.

[chillspike]

44. Does TheDailyBeast.com pay its writers?

Anyone know?

[proud2BlibKansan]

45. Left HuffPo a long time ago

when they morphed into People magazine.

[cleanhippie]

46. Yeah, the celebrity crap was enough to choke a goat.

:puke:

[bluesmail]

47. I've always been suspect of Ms Huffington. Afterall she did marry a gay guy who ran

unsuccessfully for Ca Gov, ha, maybe she knew and gambled 'what if he won?' I'd be the (title here) of California, the 4th largest economy (ok then).:evilgrin:

[cleanhippie]

48. Kicking because I'm still pissed about it.