Posted on 10/26/2011 8:12:21 PM PDT by STARWISE
- Did Arianna Huffington and Ken Lerer steal the idea for the Huffington Post?
Though Huffington has deemed the allegation "ridiculous," a judge thinks that a lawsuit making that claim is serious enough to go to trial, per a ruling in a New York court Wednesday.
Peter Daou and James Boyce, two former political advisers, filed suit against the HuffPost co-founders last November claiming that they took their idea for a liberal-leaning news site. Since then, Huffington and Lerer have tried to have the case thrown out, but to no avail.
The judge ruled Wednesday that the case would go to trial.
Daou and Boyce were involved in the early discussions about the now-sprawling media empire, but just how involved they were is unclear. Daou and Boyce were involved in the early discussions about the now-sprawling media empire, but just how involved they were is unclear.
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Internet provider AOL is to buy news and blog website The Huffington Post for $315 million, the latest in a long line of innovative start-ups snapped up by established big-name firms.
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This is just to funny. I love to watch the liberals eat there own.
no honor among the demonic.
Wasn’t Arianna a poster here back in the olden days?
spreadin’ the wealth around isn’t so great when it’s HER wealth...
News to me .. but could’ve been so.
This means absolutely NOTHING to either party ...the same should be said for us!
I know that she made her money being a pseudo-conservative. I’m not sure about direct FR involvement, though.
I think problems and questions about the integrity of one of THE top lib news integrators, who’s a purveyor and fomenter of liberal tactics and ideology is certainly fodder for interest.
I asked her why she was ragging on the Repubs so much.
She replied that Newt Gingrich was a serial womanizer and the GOP was too hypocritical.
Personally, I think many of her problems stem from being spurned by her gay husband.
I agree with the premise. But, we all know integrity means nothing to either liberals or the media.
It means something to her investors and bankers.
Arianna is a 3 timing pathetic skank.
How she looks at herself in the mirror i will never know.
Jim, I think they stole the idea from you - - they took your model, geared it toward lefty scumbags, crapped it up with sales pitches and voila!, the “Huffington Post”.
Goodness I can’t stand Arianna Huffington.
Maybe so. But, they are playing with such big bucks that a million or so means very little. It’s covered by insurance.
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