WaPo criticizes HuffPo's corporatization

[Cereal Kyller]

What happened to the Huffington Post’s erstwhile standing as a scrappy upstart challenging the mainstream media?

by Erik Wemple

A quick synopsis:

AOL: Big-dollar merger cinched at the Super Bowl followed by layoffs and featuring top merger executives who talk about “finishing each other’s sentences.” Grossness every step of the way.

Offices: The D.C. outpost of Huffington Post was once near 17th and R streets NW, in a residential neighborhood. What a glorious juxtaposition took root there: The Web site occupied a town house, with party walls. On the other sides of those party walls was the fabled “public square” that staffers and HuffPo romanticists dreamed of creating on their site.

Then the office moved to 17th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, into a public square of lobbyists.

Job Titles: Peter Goodman, he of the Amy Lee unfairness, has a title that must be capitalized even when it follows the name: Executive Business Editor. A title this pretentious can be justified only if the Huffington Post had a minimum of 20 associate business editors, which it does not.

Flack Dependency: A great Web news culture recognizes that its writers must develop their own audiences and mix it up with the community. That ethic also extends to the ancient principle that journalists should defend their own work when called upon to do so.

Fail: When I asked Huffington Post blogger Jason Linkins today to chat about a piece he’d written, I received a referral to spokesman Mario Ruiz. That came on top of several other similar referrals from Huffington Post staffers. Which brings up the Erik Wemple Blog PR Media Rule: The busier the newsroom PR rep, the sicker the newsroom.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/huffington-post-corporate-america/2011/07/12/gIQA6RmyAI_blog.html?hpid=z5

Am I the only one who finds it hilarious that the Washington fucking Post is bleating about how CORPORATIST another media outlet has become???

:beer: :rofl: :puke:

[TheWraith]

1. Just because the WP frequently leans right, doesn't mean they're wrong about HoPo.

Huffington Post is a den of frequent bullshit, pseudoscience, and celebrity tabloidism.

[Sherman A1]

2. Is this perhaps a pot & kettle thing???

Seems like it to me......:shrug:


(Included only because I like this smile and don't believe it is used near enough.....:donut: )