[bert]

This is a through exploration of the marriage of AOL and Huffington Post. The Author left AOL for Forbes and knows the players.

The juicy part is on the second page where the Huffington hiring of lots of cast offs from the recent blood baths at many big time papers is set against the firing of many AOL writers.

For Dinosaur Death watch fans, this is a glimpse of Lazarus a few months before his second passing.

[bert]

This is a long but very interesting piece

[Dr.Deth]

Welcome to the new Democratic Party para(site)digm.

Get your guy in at the top. Shunt exorbitant amounts of dollars to politically connected hacks through incestuous hiring and acquisition. Kickbacks all around. Bleed company dry. Bankruptcy. If you can, bailout and repeat.

AOL, GM, Chrysler, Freddie, Fannie.

Ever watch Goodfellas? This is the standard business model of organized crime.