Syndicated 'Huffington Post' Starting Next Week [Newspaper editors "intrigued" by the blogosphere]

EditorandPublisher.com ^ | Sept. 7, 2005 | E&P Staff

[summer]

NEW YORK Tribune Media Services confirmed today that it will begin syndicating excerpts from The Huffington Post group blog/news site starting Sept. 12.

That was the target date TMS had cited earlier this summer (E&P Online, July 27).

The site -- named after TMS columnist Arianna Huffington -- includes mostly liberal commentary by prominent people from the worlds of publishing, politics, and entertainment.

TMS will syndicate news analyses and commentaries twice a week -- with this content drawn from what's posted on the site throughout the week. The material is available to newspapers and their Web sites in the U.S. and abroad.

"Newspaper editors are clearly intrigued by what's been going on in the blogosphere," said David Williams, president and CEO of TMS. "This new service will provide them with a wealth of provocative commentary from high-profile bloggers whose views seldom appear in the pages of newspapers."

[summer]

Evolve or die Dinosaurs.

Now, THERE is a message for the FL Dem Party!!!

[MNJohnnie]

"Professional Journalism" the Buggy Whip makers of the 21st century.

[Dog Gone]

There's no reason why Mark Steyn isn't run in every newspaper in this country that runs syndicated columns except for the fact that he makes too much sense as a conservative.

They prefer the stuffy George Will as their token conservative, but now they're searching Huffington for even kookier leftwing stuff to run.

Go figure.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Hopefully the first titillating excerpt they syndicate from The Huffington Post is the one where Airhead's boy said that cannibalism is rampant in New Orleans.

That should help cheer up their audience and get them over their depression of not being able to see pictures of the dead in New Orleans.

[Cautor]

CBS recreating the "blog" experience on the evening news is as likely as Cindy Sheehan recognizing she's a raving moonbat and seeking help.

[Argus]

Huffington and company are to a real blog as the Monkees were to the Beatles.

[cwb]

Wow. Great idea. This will certainly be different than everything else we read today from the news:)

[crazyhorse691]

So now they are going to add half witted, imbecilic, leftist rants to their leftyslant news reporting and that will improve their ratings/bottom line/image because people will be drawn back to reading/hearing the same old lefty news? Nothing has changed!!!Makes the head spin at their arrogance/stupidity/cluelessness.

[Stepan12]

It's pathetic! This "Huffington" blog makes more sense and is interesting to boot: Huffington's toast -- not the Huffington post.

[summer]

RE post #29 - Oh, that was so funny; I'm still laughing ("Not by Michael Moore" etc.) Thank you so much for that link.

If that parody was in a newspaper, I would make a special effort to buy that newspaper (just like I already buy The Weekly World News, when I'm in the mood for some FRESH air!).

[summer]

Check out the link in post #29 - a parody site of Huff Post. I'm still laughing... LOL...:)

[summer]

RE post #29 - I especially liked the parody articles "by Jayson Blair." ROTFLMAO...

[dynachrome]

Maybe hack the newspaper's site and send people to the "toast" site when they try to read Huffie? I would never advocate anything illegal of course.

[Let's Roll]

Isn't Arianna the one who promoted the cannibalism rumor?

No agenda there. These papers are going to intrigue themselves into even more cancellations.

[summer]

Remember your manners! No hacking!

[summer]

(However, it is a funny idea.) :)

[summer]

I am predicting the end of MSM as we know it in our lifetime.

[summer]

Including newspapers.

[dynachrome]

I'm not good enough at computers anyhow. Giant game and freeping machines.

[summer]

Here's an idea for some clever person out there who has time to do this: publish a new newspaper to reach all those people in this country who don't care about voting most of the time and really don't want to know anything. Call it: The Anti-News.

Just fill it with recipes, a few tawdry celebrity tales, and true articles about new medical research.

Oh, wait - that already exists. And, what do you know -- it's the best selling newspaper in America! (The National Enquirer)

Everyone else is already in the blogosphere...