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Arianna’s Marie Antoinette Moment

Good Afternoon everyone. Excellent article Marion. I just stopped in to read and to share this info with you all. It seems like Arianna Antoinette is now receiving the criticism that’s been long overdue. Now that I found my login info I can comment more. Have a great day everyone. Be safe.

NY Times, Huffington Post exchange barbs

Bill Keller, executive editor of the venerable New York Times, and Arianna Huffington, founder of brash newcomer The Huffington Post, exchanged blows on Thursday in a highly public spat.

Keller threw the first punch in a column for the Times magazine, calling Huffington the “queen of aggregation” in a dig at her site’s practice of frequently linking to news items produced by other media outlets.

Huffington, he wrote, “has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your website and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.”

Aggregation, the Times editor said, too often “amounts to taking words written by other people, packaging them on your own website and harvesting revenue that might otherwise be directed to the originators of the material.”

“In Somalia this would be called piracy,” he said. “In the mediasphere, it is a respected business model.”

http://www.alternet.org/rss/breaking_news/515604/ny_times%2C_huffington__post_exchange_barbs/

» Posted By Zoey On March 11, 2011 @ 11:43 am

Why Republicans Will Lose By Winning

One glaringly wonderful difference here on the Planet is the level of respect given regardless of the discourse. Ideas and thoughts cannot get mired down in name calling and flame baiting (that place has it’s own internet address).

I agree we need an Educator-In-Chief and in fact I think that is what the President is trying to do as he reminds us how we got here and that it didn’t happen overnight. I’m just very concerned how the media is getting only one side of the message out and it’s not in favor of this President.

Hopefully there are more non-politically savvy people like me who want to learn from and join in on conversations like you have here.

Thanks again AdLib.

» Posted By Zoey On September 7, 2010 @ 9:29 am

Oh, but I do feel very welcome thank you.

» Posted By Zoey On September 7, 2010 @ 9:12 am

Thanks Boomer1949 for the welcome and the information, I appreciate it.

» Posted By Zoey On September 7, 2010 @ 8:58 am

Hi Kalima and thank you.

» Posted By Zoey On September 7, 2010 @ 8:55 am

Hi Everyone, I wanted to register just too tell AdLib how much I appreciate this article. It has been frustrating to watch the media make so many people dance to their tune. Highly charged emotions, short term memory, mixed with impatience is what I see and hear every day when it comes to politics.

What I don’t hear through all of the distraction is what the Republicans will do to make anything any better. What I see clearly through all of this is that the Republican agenda is not forward thinking.

Sadly, watching too much television and listening to the opinions of others constantly, instead of thinking for ourselves, seems to have left many people making their political decisions the same way they do on Survivor and American Idol. Oh, well….

Thank you for this article. I have printed it out and will read it from time to time as a reality check.

» Posted By Zoey On September 5, 2010 @ 8:54 am