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> The Washington Post also does actual reporting... So does the Huffington Post, but many of the writers are unpaid contributors. > they actually produce some
by mjfern 14y ago
> The Washington Post also does actual reporting...
So does the Huffington Post, but many of the writers are unpaid contributors.
> they actually produce something of value...
Tell this to readers and advertisers, who are voting with their time and $.
- brandnewlow 14y agoNate Silver made a pretty good case that HuffPo bloggers don't contribute much to site traffic. http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/the-economics-of-blogging-and-the-huffington-post/ http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/the-econ... The implication is that the aggregated content lifted from other sites and the original content created by HuffPo writers gets 100x the traffic and eyeballs.