Newspaper Guild Backs Huffington Post Boycott

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Newspaper Guild Backs Huffington Post Boycott

A fifty-person boycott of the Huffington Post may have just gained 26,000 new backers. In a statement on Wednesday, the national Newspaper Guild called on members to support a strike started earlier this year by the Visual Art Source, an organization whose fifty members pledged to stop contributing to HuffPost after it was bought out by AOL. "Just as we would ask writers to stand fast and not cross a physical picket line, we ask that they honor this electronic picket line," the Guild statement read, asking writers to stop blogging for free. While many outlets don't pay their writers, representative Rebecca Rosen-Lum explained that the Guild boycott had to do with hypocrisy. "(Arianna Huffington) has been a strong and articulate voice against conservative policies that have helped deal a death blow to the middle class… So what gives?" When questioned by the Daily Caller, a Huffington Post spokesperson noted that the site had 143 paid employees on staff, and recently hired 17 more journalists.

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[Vinnie From Indy]

1. Arianna has played America like a drum!

She appears to have been merely another right wing opportunist that took the money and ran. I wonder where she will next pop up to perpetrate her next scam.