Posted on 02/10/2011 7:10:24 AM PST by jimbo123
To grasp the Huffington Post's business model, picture a galley rowed by slaves and commanded by pirates.
Whatever the ultimate impact of AOL's $315-million acquisition of the Huffington Post on the new-media landscape, it's already clear that the merger will push more journalists more deeply into the tragically expanding low-wage sector of our increasingly brutal economy.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
How can the contributors to HuffPo be described as slaves? No one forced them to contribute!
Are you positive she doesn’t have a dungeon somewhere deep underground with 500 hacks blogging away at their keyboards for thin gruel and water?
I don't quite get this comment. They were working for nothing already. What's deeper than NADA? If these putzes were looking for reward, they were hypocrites. Clearly, they thought that once the revolution was complete, they would be a part of the ruling class.
Bad luck!!
It is not going to sit well with many writers, when it is pointed out that some writer did indeed get paid fairly well, the elite.
The serfs, nothing, but vanity in seeing their names attached to a story.
The fact is that AOL and the Huffington Post simply recapitulate in the new media many of the worst abuses of the old economy’s industrial capitalism — the sweatshop, the speedup and piecework; huge profits for the owners; desperation, drudgery and exploitation for the workers. No child labor, yet, but if there were more page views in it…
Umm.... I think theL.A Times has forgotten that they wrote and posted these articles without being forced to do it. Slaves had no choice, these Libs had a choice and chose not to get payed. Sure, they were used, but they were okay with it until now. I guess the Communist utopia was all a hoax perpetrated on the workers (as is the case with ALL communism). Those at the top get richer and those at the bottom stay there. Why so capitalist all of the sudden?
I’m confused by this articles use of the word “journalism”.
Showing once again that to be a liberal is to be a hypocrite.
Maybe Arianna can buy some dignity with all that cash
brain washed by the left from the crib
through advanced kindergarten,
and bitch-slapped thru’ college.
now, unemployable, and clueless.
Didn’t it cost her 50 million to start and untold millions to keep it afloat? It may survive but very doubtful. Ass for the establishmedia crying about low wages, put out a salable product and the world will pay you accordingly.
Pray for America
Silly Rabbit, the author defines it in liberal speak.
Journalism is information collected and analyzed in ways people actually can use.
The analysis, of course, is putting the proper liberal spin on it because their audience needs to hear the party line before they know what to think.
“Journalism is information collected and analyzed in ways people actually can use.”
O I C.
Journalism must then be like stock market tables, sports scores, Excel spreadsheets, and labor statistics, right?
Actually, I thought that contemporary “journalism” was the regurgitation of neo-Marxist propaganda in the service of elevating neo-Marxist to power in governments. Silly, me. Now I know otherwise.
Nothing new.
They have been exploiting their audience since Gutenberg.
“Huffington Post’s business model”
All socialist are equal, but some socialist are more equal than others. What a hypocrite.
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