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Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington to step down
- smegel 10y agoHopefully the SJW hoards she unleashed will soon follow...
- mms1973 10y agoNo worries. She will be hired as Propaganda Minister by President Clinton
- kartD 10y agoAll her talk of integrity, and yet HuffPo writes articles on Uber while she sits on their board. Where are the amazing journalists of our day? Where is the modern day Murrow or Cronkite? On another note does anyone know any good Indian journalists? Or is the term an oxymoron :P ?
- robg 10y agoLet me google that for you: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/arianna-huffington-uber_us_572118a7e4b0b49df6a9ff73 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/arianna-huffington-uber_...
- losteverything 10y agoWhere is the modern day Murrow or Cronkite? All over. The trick is to find them. Our world is so much better because newspapers matter less and so much worse because cable matters more.
- kartD 10y agoTrue, journalism has been democratized, do you have any recommendations? I seem to have difficulty finding them
- losteverything 10y agoI like the week.
- kartD 10y agoNot to my taste, but I can definitely see why someone would like it. Still pretty good. Thanks!
- losteverything 10y agoI'll add Bloomberg. Esp their radio. Esp__2 their law program.
- kartD 10y agoI love Bloomberg and WSJ!
- e40 10y agoA friend recommended this. I went to their website and there was an article on guns (it was just after one of our horrific gun violence incidents) and their solution: arm everyone. That was really the conclusion from the op-ed, make sure everyone has a gun. No thanks.
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- manishsharan 10y agoBack when I was very young, my dad told me of honest journalists who had been tortured by India Gandhi's regime during the emergency while some did really well. So its not fair to judge all of the Indian journalists as equally inept. Instead of casually dismissing their contribution, look within yourself and ask yourself why you are not able to find a single Indian journalist worth knowing. edit : typos
- kartD 10y agoYou've misunderstood my comment, I'm asking for some good examples because I believe they exist and I haven't seen them. I don't follow regional and local language news, but I'm sure they have some good journalists. And please don't give me this self-introspection crap.
- selimthegrim 10y agoWhat integrity? She and her husband are still PNG in many Santa Barbara restaurants after walking out on tens of thousands in tabs.
- webkike 10y agoIs there some article you can reference about this?
- selimthegrim 10y agohttp://www.independent.com/news/2011/nov/03/dead-dogs-dancing/ http://www.independent.com/news/2011/nov/03/dead-dogs-dancin... "And then there’s Michael Huffington, the Texas tycoon who moved to Santa Barbara in the early ’90s so he could run for Congress. Huffington ingratiated himself with S.B. movers and shakers by writing $10,000 checks to all their favorite charities. But he and his famous wife, Arianna, who has since morphed into a famous left-wing media mogulista, were so late paying their bills that many of Santa Barbara’s high-end foodie establishments cut off credit to the high-octane couple. As he would later — when news stories broke that he’d hired an illegal immigrant to care for his children — Huffington blamed his wife."
- sandworm101 10y ago> Where is the modern day Murrow or Cronkite? They are on 'fake news' shows doing comedy.
- return0 10y agoUnless you are being sarcastic, comedy news shows are heavily biased and politicized.
- sandworm101 10y agoAnd Murrow or Cronkit weren't? My point was that the most popular and most trusted American newsmen aren't on network news shows any more. They are on variety shows doing comedy about the news.
- douche 10y agoAnd yet they were often less comically biased than the "real" news that they were lampooning. If nothing more, they provide a worthwhile service in poking at the absurdities of network news.
- easuter 10y agoTrue, yet they push absurd agendas of their own, see for example The Daily Show's ridiculous outrage-mongering over women's football.
- yardie 10y agoSince you threw it out there. Please inform the rest of us how?
- maverick_iceman 10y ago> On another note does anyone know any good Indian journalists? These days only Arnab Goswami comes to mind. In the past there were a lot of upstanding journalists like Arun Shourie, Kuldip Nayar, Lala Jagat Narayan etc.
- selimthegrim 10y agoKhushwant Singh, MJ Akbar?
- bruceb 10y agoHaving 6+ other people on a show and yelling doesn't seem the pinnacle of journalism.
- monksy 10y agoThat's how I feel about the New Yorker after I found out that they pinned a glowing review of "how great gawker was" written by none other than Adrian Chen. (He's a piece of work)
- lotso 10y agoAdrian obviously acknowledged his bias. Do you have an issue with anyone writing about things they're involved in? What legitimate criticism is there on this scenario you're describing?
- monksy 10y agoViolentAcres. He went after a guy who was a moderator on an unpopular, but legal subreddit. (Distasteful, I'll agree with you) The person who was the moderator, from my understanding did not contribute to the sub. He turned a very private individual into a very public individual and caused many bad things for the person. Even worse, he made sure to punish and taunt the individual. As a result the individual had a lot of rather stressful life events, was humiliated on CNN, etc. For all of this: Adrian Chen claimed a moral victory. ----- From my understanding, this was SOP at Gawker, and that is what lead them to have some very powerful enemies.
- jomamaxx 10y ago'journalists' ? It's a blog ...
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- gtrubetskoy 10y agoI'm beginning to think that "corporate and consumer well-being and productivity" might be the next big thing, and it's already here. There are incredible opportunities in this space, like biohacking, supplements, self-testing (blood, brain function, etc), computer-assisted learning and meditation, diets and just plain old food a level beyond "organic" (i.e. known origin, local, glyphosate free soil, "grass fed" etc).
- robg 10y agoThe biggest question is always: Who pays? It's in a company's interest to pay for a sleep coach for any worker with sleep difficulties. But sadly health is not yet seen as part of operations/productivity, even in the most modern companies. That's changing, and with incentives from Obamacare, but we're looking at a complete re-thinking of benefits and human resources. I'm excited in this thread because Huffington is exactly the person to help.
- 6stringmerc 10y agoIn my experience, having worked in corporate "Wellness" related business objectives, I think there are two mentalities to approaching improving well-being and productivity, 1) The Carrot, and 2) The Stick. In scenario 1) the company provides resources (time, opportunities for exercise, dietary advantages like coupons) and hopes for a good outcome. They offer incentives. In scenario 2) the company jacks up everybody's rates and offers "Discounts" to people who willingly submit to having their biological markers reviewed and stored in a database, and to be "under the thumb" of "Coaches" who call to "check in" on progress. The only incentive is fiscal, and the company gets to off-load a bit more of its financial obligation...and, in the US where wages are stagnant, it punishes working class folks. There's a lot of feel-good talk about option 1) but in my experience Top-Down leadership highly prefers option 2) and that bothers me. Mostly because BMI is often bullshit and sharing PHI is also bullshit to get around some HIPAA protections. Now with lots of cancer survivors on the books, insurance companies want to recoup the actuarial risk by increasing premiums on the corporate employer, and the corporate employer wants to find ways to kick the cost downward so, you know, shareholders will be happy. I do sincerely believe this is the way it works in the US. I do not like it.
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- ZoF 10y agoOne of the least biased media sources on the internet :^)
- spriggan3 10y agoYou forgot the /s somewhere in your sentence /s . In the age of bloggers AS journalists because paying real ones is what online media doesn't do (the Huffpo doesn't pay its contributors, nor its interns) , there is very little journalism left on the internet which is a paradox, considered we are drowned with "news" .
- acjohnson55 10y agoI'm fairly certain HuffPost does pay its interns. Bloggers are unpaid, but there's a fairly large newsroom on staff that produces much of the most viewed content.
- travisby 10y agoI think `^` was a pinocchio nose -- implying a lie.
- SpeakMouthWords 10y agoThat is not the meaning of :^) :^) indicates that a joke is being made. It's quite similar to TwitchTV's Kappa, if you know about that.
- ry_ry 10y agoKappa is actually quite an interesting phenomenon - the fluid state of meme-emoticons and the ebb and flow of their popularity in relation to seemingly unconnected events is a nuanced topic in its own right. Nothing to do with huffpost tho. Kappa
- anders098 10y agoHuffington post if far from serious newspaper/media.They are yellow journalism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism They exaggerates news in order to grab eyeballs. And their "liberal" attributes biased their stances a lot too.
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- return0 10y agoI do not think anyone disputes that. Then again, in the copywriter's age, yellow papers are bastions of journalism.
- pc86 10y ago> Then again, in the copywriter's age, yellow papers are bastions of journalism. This might sound profound but it doesn't actually make any sense.
- MrTonyD 10y agoI remember Matt Lauer asking Bernie Sanders why people were responding to his campaign. Sanders answered that it was because he was talking about things that the media doesn't cover - inequality, lack of healthcare, lack of education, the rich rigging the economy. Then he asked Matt how many times he had covered those topics. Matt just stared back - like a deer in the headlights. They quickly cut to commercial.
- avn2109 10y agoI think the parent means that the vast majority of published material is disguised native content such as "submarine" PR pieces, product placement, unmodified press releases etc. Since the overall standards have sunk so low, yellow journalism starts to look good by comparison.
- mathattack 10y agoIs it Yellow Journalism or just an open medium for anyone to rant on whatever they want? I consider it barely above a Blog. (Not knocking blogs, just saying it's not even Journalism)
- gwern 10y agoI guess all her compensation finally vested.
- oldmanjay 10y agoI'm sure she feels like she's done enough to destroy discourse on the internet and she has her sights set on destroying some other vital pillar of our civilization to increase her personal fortune further.
- swalsh 10y agoHa, there are just some people where the world would just be a better place if they had less drive.
- acjohnson55 10y agoI was an engineer at HuffPost. I believe the departure of Arianna is going to have a huge impact on the organization. Whether that's net positive or negative, only time will tell. Many of the company's significant initiatives seemed to come out in unpredictable bursts from the brain trust that formed Arianna's staff. The nominal product and engineering leadership was charged with implementing these initiatives, but subject to rapidly changing priorities. A lot of work was launched under time pressure and then scrapped shortly afterward. To be fair, a lot of the instincts behind those priorities were pretty ambitious and forward-thinking. But totally disconnected from the work of implementation. There's an opportunity to retain the positive aspects that kept HuffPost on the cutting edge (at least in some ways) and reform the churn and top-down approach. Or maybe the road is clear for the company to be fully assimilated into the Verizonscape.