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AOL INSIDER: Here Are 12 Reasons Why The AOL-Huffington Post Merger Is Going Down In Flames (AOL)
http://www.sfgate.com ^ | June 3, 2011 | Nicholas Carlton

Posted on 06/05/2011 6:03:56 PM PDT by lbryce

Edited on 06/05/2011 6:32:41 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Twelve reasons why the AOL

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aol; doom; doomed; huffingtonpost; huffpost; hupo; leftwing; liberal; ruined; runin
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That it IS the Huffington Post is all you need to know on why it's going down in flames.
1 posted on 06/05/2011 6:04:02 PM PDT by lbryce
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“tragedy here is that not only will the deal ruin AOL, but it will also ruin the Huffington Post”

(Tragedy? hysterical laughter from me!)


2 posted on 06/05/2011 6:05:55 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: lbryce

Good Riddance!

So sick of hearing people source that site for “news”.


3 posted on 06/05/2011 6:06:37 PM PDT by VanDeKoik (1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
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To: lbryce

“The tragedy here is that not only will the deal ruin AOL, but it will also ruin the Huffington Post. “

This is a bad thing??


4 posted on 06/05/2011 6:06:48 PM PDT by y6162
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To: lbryce

Pure leftist tripe, and absolutely unreadable...even the headlines.


5 posted on 06/05/2011 6:08:35 PM PDT by truthkeeper ( Life is a pre-existing condition - Rush Limbaugh)
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"The tragedy here is that not only will the deal ruin AOL, but it will also ruin the Huffington Post."

And all this time I thought I knew what tragedy meant. Go figure.

6 posted on 06/05/2011 6:09:39 PM PDT by hometoroost (Per Oceander: The only guarantees in life are death, taxes, and stupidity.)
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With luck they both will lose.


7 posted on 06/05/2011 6:11:33 PM PDT by PGR88 (I'm so open-minded my brains fell out)
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To: lbryce

Those miserable saps. Sounds like one of the companies I joined years ago. Everyone hated the new management that employees would literally walk across the building and spend the entire day in the library. The remaining time they would start typing their resumes.


8 posted on 06/05/2011 6:13:04 PM PDT by max americana (.)
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I don’t know why they thought putting two losers together would make a winner. All they did was create one big loser.


9 posted on 06/05/2011 6:13:15 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("...that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,..")
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To: PGR88

Like Old Lefty Ted Turner claims he lost 8 Billion on AOL merger.


10 posted on 06/05/2011 6:14:01 PM PDT by scooby321
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It could be they both lie.


11 posted on 06/05/2011 6:14:25 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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Is arianna laughing all the way to the bank???


12 posted on 06/05/2011 6:18:21 PM PDT by moondoggie
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13 posted on 06/05/2011 6:19:16 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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No matter what the product, if you piss off 75% of your potential customer base right off the bat, that’s going to be a problem...


14 posted on 06/05/2011 6:22:30 PM PDT by bigbob
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It was always about huffing some crazy drug synthsized from dung: huffingtonpodst.com


15 posted on 06/05/2011 6:24:23 PM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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“Is arianna laughing all the way to the bank???”

Was thinking same thing. Wonder if Soros is still invested?


16 posted on 06/05/2011 6:25:37 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: lbryce

Ever since my screen is blasted with Huttington Post junk, my aol hasn’t worked well. So, I now go through aol internet explorer to avoid all of their left wing so called news. Makes me furious as I can no longer copy and paste to the face of the emails as before...oh well...I’ll manage.


17 posted on 06/05/2011 6:29:50 PM PDT by TatieBug
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The media needed a merger of AOL and the Huffingtonpout like Newcastle needed coal.

But, until search engines users rebel at search engines treating it like a real news source it’ll make money.


18 posted on 06/05/2011 6:32:01 PM PDT by mrsmith
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[The tragedy here is that not only will the deal ruin AOL, but it will also ruin the Huffington Post. ]

I just got out my “tragedy” magnifying glass, but still no luck finding it. Must be one of those flea on a dog things.


19 posted on 06/05/2011 6:33:00 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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To: lbryce

I started out on the internet pretty early, when when the original of Netscape was still in Beta. And fairly early I got involved with CompuServe dialup.

At the time, Compuserve was very good. Almost by accident, I became an adviser in the Help Forum, and then a sysop.

But AOL took over Compuserve and wrecked it. And their miserable software developers were impossible to work with. As high-speed cable became available, I gradually abandoned CompuServe, although I kept it for 5 or 6 years as a backup to cable, which frequently went down, since as a sysop I had free service.

But AOL ruined the CompuServe part of their company, and wrecked and threw away all of the forums that had been built up over the years, many on a partly volunteer basis. I had to keep AOL for a while because my kids used AIM. When that lost out to newer ways of getting in touch with friends, AOL went down the drain—for me, at least. I can’t see that it has any reason for existing any longer.

HuffPo is the same. Without rich liberals to support it as a propaganda tool, it’s hard to see how it can survive in the changing world of the internet.


20 posted on 06/05/2011 6:48:05 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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