Comments on: Arianna’s new empire http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/02/07/ariannas-new-empire/ A slice of lime in the soda Sat, 25 May 2013 16:48:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: GregHao http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/02/07/ariannas-new-empire/comment-page-1/#comment-23844 GregHao Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:44:25 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=7212#comment-23844 Just to add to some of the thoughts here, Felix, can you provide us with some evidence for this quote: "Arianna’s a den mother when it comes to her own employees: she won’t stand for any harm befalling them." If you mean all the big name people she's hired, then you may very well be right but what about the hundreds or thousands of bloggers whose content's not being paid for by HuffPo? Seems like the den mother's never really cared two wits about them anyway. Just to add to some of the thoughts here, Felix, can you provide us with some evidence for this quote: “Arianna’s a den mother when it comes to her own employees: she won’t stand for any harm befalling them.” If you mean all the big name people she’s hired, then you may very well be right but what about the hundreds or thousands of bloggers whose content’s not being paid for by HuffPo? Seems like the den mother’s never really cared two wits about them anyway.

]]> By: Setty http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/02/07/ariannas-new-empire/comment-page-1/#comment-23826 Setty Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:11:44 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=7212#comment-23826 Funny how all the other blog empires that have taken free contributions and used them to make the owners rich have generated howls of protest, but in this one, I hear only Al Giordano (http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/4301/why-ive-removed-my-journalism-huffington-post) complaining. It brings to mind this, from the Devil's Dictionary. Maybe "Politics" could be replaced with "Blogging." "Politics: n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage." Funny how all the other blog empires that have taken free contributions and used them to make the owners rich have generated howls of protest, but in this one, I hear only Al Giordano (http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefie ld/4301/why-ive-removed-my-journalism-hu ffington-post) complaining.

It brings to mind this, from the Devil’s Dictionary. Maybe “Politics” could be replaced with “Blogging.”

“Politics: n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”

]]> By: Warburton http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/02/07/ariannas-new-empire/comment-page-1/#comment-23821 Warburton Tue, 08 Feb 2011 02:41:54 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=7212#comment-23821 Oops. Leech, not leach. Oops. Leech, not leach.

]]> By: thoma http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/02/07/ariannas-new-empire/comment-page-1/#comment-23820 thoma Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:58:45 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=7212#comment-23820 Know Ariana from CNN. Sounds like a crazy deal. Wish her the best but AOL is nuts Know Ariana from CNN.
Sounds like a crazy deal. Wish her the best but AOL is nuts

]]> By: Warburton http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/02/07/ariannas-new-empire/comment-page-1/#comment-23819 Warburton Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:45:16 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=7212#comment-23819 HuffPo is a tabloid that leaches most of its articles of substance from other news sources. I wouldn't mind if it disappeared, Arianna et al. HuffPo is a tabloid that leaches most of its articles of substance from other news sources. I wouldn’t mind if it disappeared, Arianna et al.

]]> By: flippant http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/02/07/ariannas-new-empire/comment-page-1/#comment-23814 flippant Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:53:40 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=7212#comment-23814 Good post. Now I can ignore the Huffington/AOL merger until at least Wednesday. Good post. Now I can ignore the Huffington/AOL merger until at least Wednesday.

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