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DESPERATE: HuffPo & Oprah Team Up Now
Deadline/Hollywood ^ | 5-23-12 | Nikki Finke

Posted on 05/23/2012 2:15:15 PM PDT by STARWISE

Talk about a lose-lose situation… Recent reports say Arianna Huffington’s job duties over AOL have been greatly downsized, while Oprah Winfrey’s failing OWN remains on life support at Discovery after losing millions. So what do the two women do? Why join forces, of course.

This pathetic pairing sounds to me like an ill-conceived partnership, and it’s interesting that no mention is made of AOL which bought HuffPo last year.

Today the Huffington Post Media Group and OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced the launch of an Oprah Winfrey section on Huffingtonpost.com coming August 2012. The special section on the website will feature content created and curated by writers and producers from OWN and Oprah.com specifically for The Huffington Post.

Additionally, the section will call upon The Huffington Post’s network of bloggers and community to focus on Oprah.com content “to enlarge the conversation on living our best lives, as Oprah puts it,” said Huffington. Just what their readers don’t need: yet another artificially created dialogue. Winfrey’s OWN can’t capitalize on Oprah’s former popularity when she had her own syndicated talk show.

Now analysts are betting that Discovery will pull the plug if topper David Zaslav can figure out a way to rationalize it, and all the money he’s wasted (one recent report predicts a $142M writedown), to Wall Street. As for Arianna, she was given editorial control of AOL’s online properties after HuffPo’s sale. But now she’s lost that and is only editorially in charge of HuffPo again.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arianahuffington; huffpost; oprah
How the powerful can fall ...
1 posted on 05/23/2012 2:15:27 PM PDT by STARWISE
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To: STARWISE

The Left deserves to FAIL and FALL.
The sooner the better.
This is supposed to be AMERICA, the land of our Founders.


2 posted on 05/23/2012 2:19:19 PM PDT by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: STARWISE

No mention of AOL, but I imagine they are involved in some way. That’s a losing outfit, too. Everything they touch turns to mud.


3 posted on 05/23/2012 2:23:36 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: onyx

Amen .. I predict they’ll skip down on this
leftist path to further embarrassment and
continued shunning until they have to slink
away, shame faced, “to spend more time with
family and friends.” And they’ll also probably
never GET how much they’ve turned off the bulk
of Americans.


4 posted on 05/23/2012 2:26:11 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE

Every time I hear the name “Oprah Winfrey”, I think about the video of her ridiculing & shouting down an audience member who said that Jesus Christ is the only way to God.

That woman knows nothing about how to “live your best life”. Instead of giving meaningless advice to others, she’d be better off asking God to show her the truth.


5 posted on 05/23/2012 2:35:14 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
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To: CatherineofAragon

Opray broke the cardinal sin for entertainers. Letting everyone know how POLITICALLY DUMB you are. It will be just one dumb move after another from now on for her. OWN was first, Now this.


6 posted on 05/23/2012 2:53:46 PM PDT by spawn44
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To: STARWISE

What does Fail + Fail = ?


7 posted on 05/23/2012 2:59:32 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: STARWISE
FOX alone caters to a balanced and less than enthusiastic promotion of liberalism and the DNC. CNN, CBS, ABC, and especially MSNBC all fight for scraps of the Liberal Lefts viewership. Heck those news networks even have competition from Oprah's NOW and AOL, Time Warner, Newsweek, Time and BET. FOX alone caters to about 50% of the population, while the others fight among themselves to see who can be the best Obama/DNC Butt-boys. If you had to choose just one stock to buy out of all those media/MSM outlets it might just be FOX, or maybe an extended position on CNN whose ratings are in the 20-year dustbin of history.
8 posted on 05/23/2012 4:17:29 PM PDT by Jumper
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