Posted on 05/23/2012 2:15:15 PM PDT by STARWISE
Talk about a lose-lose situation Recent reports say Arianna Huffingtons job duties over AOL have been greatly downsized, while Oprah Winfreys 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 its 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 Posts 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 dont need: yet another artificially created dialogue. Winfreys OWN cant capitalize on Oprahs 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 hes wasted (one recent report predicts a $142M writedown), to Wall Street. As for Arianna, she was given editorial control of AOLs online properties after HuffPos sale. But now shes lost that and is only editorially in charge of HuffPo again.
The Left deserves to FAIL and FALL.
The sooner the better.
This is supposed to be AMERICA, the land of our Founders.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What does Fail + Fail = ?
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