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[diva]

Originally Posted by NinjaBoy

Wow.

First off, I was more commenting on Rawb's post...

Second off, Maybe the huffpost shouldn't use the slogan: "The internet's newspaper" if they want to be considered a blog, and thus not held to the same standards as other news websites...

Or list on their about us page jobs such as: Editor, Reporters, Associate News Editors, Senior News editor...

Giving the clear indication they consider themselves a news source, not a blog.

Huffington Post

Dude, you should know the site is a blog. It's a site owned by mostly one person, who pays mostly her friends (and people who have the same views as her) to post commentary on it. Trying to say that it needs to have the same standards as a real news source is ridiculous.

Seriously, Ninjaboy, you're reaching. The "I can't believe you linked us to someone's opinion" comment after I gave a wikipedia link is weird. Maybe if i'd used huff as my only link, but come on. Gosh. <3 That's ok, though. I understand completely. <3

The Huffington Post was launched on May 9, 2005 as a commentary outlet. Its roster of bloggers includes many people from Arianna Huffington's network of prominent friends.

The Huffington Post - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Pussy*Kat]

What's with all the <3's in this thread

[diva]

What's wrong with <3 ?
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[NinjaBoy]

Originally Posted by diva

Dude, you should know the site is a blog. It's a site owned by mostly one person, who pays mostly her friends (and people who have the same views as her) to post commentary on it. Trying to say that it needs to have the same standards as a real news source is ridiculous.

That was what I originally said, it's not a news source, and shouldn't be sourced...

My point is this. It makes no attempt as defining itself as a blog, it in fact goes out of it's way to describe itself as a news source. Nowhere on the site does it mention any of that, the site is built to look and act like a news site.

The browser headline is: "Breaking News and Opinion". The Headline Slogan under there name is "The internet's Newspaper" they list jobs such as "Reporters, Associate Editors, Business News Editor"

I never said it should be held up to a news source standard, simply that it is not a news source. The only thing that keeps it from being considered a news source is people know that it's garbage not any action they have taken.

Seriously, Ninjaboy, you're reaching. The "I can't believe you linked us to someone's opinion" comment after I gave a wikipedia link is weird. Maybe if i'd used huff as my only link, but come on. Gosh. <3 That's ok, though. I understand completely. <3

Also, why do you keep saying this? I have already stated that I wasn't referring to your article at all, and was responding to Rawb (Who I even quoted in the original post)...

[ebbomega]

diva seems to be a big fan of strawman arguments.

[diva]

Ninjaboy, who said it was a news source? I'm sorry, but I honestly assumed that most people were familiar with Arianna Huffington and would know that a website with her name in it was not an unbiased news source.

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I really must apologize for any confusion my post caused.

Most people would just go a quick google search if they wanted real news info on the topic I introduced into this thread. That's what I do when I want to learn about something.

Don't worry, like I said, I understand. <3

Thank you for the lesson, though. I appreciate it.

<3

[miss.myra]

speaking of semantics

[NinjaBoy]

Originally Posted by diva

Ninjaboy, who said it was a news source? I'm sorry, but I honestly assumed that most people were familiar with Arianna Huffington and would know that a website with her name in it was not an unbiased news source.

It's a slippery slope to assume that everyone knows the history and name of the people behind a web page.

Most people would just go a quick google search if they wanted real news info on the topic I introduced into this thread. That's what I do when I want to learn about something.

I know, I never ever said anything about your article. Seriously, I don't know why you keep going back to this. I responded to Rawb's post, and said I don't like the huffpost, and consider it "news" at it's worst. I even used quoations.

I responded to someone else's post, saying I don't like the huffpost. I find any site that tries to present themselves as a online newspaper (their words, not mine), and hides behind the title of blog, shady at best.

I agree with most of the articles they post, I just find the site sub par.

[diva]

I'm off to Granville Island to buy some gluten free baked goods. I hope my friend Gillian can piggyback me!

<3

[Pussy*Kat]

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[rawb]

this is how democrats resolve problems.

[decypher]

For the Huffpo, i guess it depends on your definition of blog and news source. It started out as a blog but has become a news source, albeit untraditional. Blogs can be valuable news sources as sometimes the people reporting are actually at the political events and so information is more uptodate on a blog then in print or broadcast. It's more who is contributing to a website and their trackrecord rather then the form the news is served up in.

Huffpo has been criticized as having a liberal bias like any other source and Arianna is often on CNN as a contributor (although the news anchors generally let the republican side interrupt her to the point of not being able to make a point). The contributors she has had on her site range from sitting house representatives to people such as Bill Maher etc. They've also received journalism awards for their work on the site. So really I don't see all that much difference from the type of content you see in broadcast or print journalism.

News dailies weren't even seen as valuable information back in the day. Newspapers were seen as junk that rotted the minds of the masses. With blogs you have the complete unreliable junk, but with some you have valuable portals to news and opinion. I find the apprehension to influential blogs are similar to when news papers became ubiquitous. It's all about gaining that level of trust that Broadcast/Print news has gained over decades of development. One day if not today, sites like this, well be just as commercialized and big as large newspapers. The HuffPo is one example of current trends in journalism. Sure it has a liberal slant, but that's the point, and they've been very critical of the bush administration. This sort of business model that the HuffPo uses is definitely unconventional when compared to the aging broadcast industry but it represents a a new path for supporting a wider range of news discourses.