Huff Post writers looking for new home invited to MadMikesAmerica

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Those several thousand journalists who wrote for the Huffington post are unhappy over the sale and are looking for a new home.  Well, I am certainly happy to invite them to come over to MadMikesAmerica.  We are always looking for more good writers.   Here is the Raw Story:

The purchase of the Huffington Post by AOL left many of the progressive writers and readers that made the site into a powerhouse looking for a new home.

Adbusters magazine set out to unite those disaffected former supporters of Arianna Huffington’s flagship site by suggesting they use social media to promote alternatives.

“Socialite Arianna Huffington built a blog-empire on the backs of thousands of citizen journalists,” a post at Adbusters begins. “She exploited our idealism and let us labor under the illusion that the Huffington Post was different, independent and leftist. Now she’s cashed in and three thousand indie bloggers find themselves working for a megacorp.”

But the Huffington Post is not Arianna’s to sell. It is ours: the lefty writers and readers, environmentalism activists and anti-corporate organizers who flooded the site with 25 million visits a month. So we’re going to take it back.

We’ll stop going to her site. And we’ll stop blogging for her too. Then we’ll give birth to an alternative to AOL’s HuffPo by using the #huffpuff hash tag to tell the world about our favorite counter-culture websites and indie blogs.

“We are the ones who built the Huffington Post. And now we will be the ones who will huff & puff it down,” Adbusters concluded.

A quick search of the social network Twitter indicated that the hashtag #huffpuff was already being used to propose alternatives.

“My favorite @HuffPost alternative is @therealnews. Join the #huffpuff boycott!” Ben Lucyk suggested.

“Following #HuffPuff? Try @therealnews | @truthout | @buzzflash | @factcheckdotorg | @CatoInstitute | @Truthdig | @AlterNet,” James Young tweeted.

Al Giordano, publisher of Narco News, pledged to no longer provide content to the Huffington Post.

“As long as I live and breathe, this online newspaper – Narco News and its pages – will never be sold to a profit-making venture,” he wrote. “Somebody has to set a higher standard around this water cooler called the Internet.”

Arianna Huffington’s new role as editor in chief of AOL sites has also caused some conservative bloggers to take their business elsewhere. Matt Lewis announced Tuesday that he was leaving AOL’s Politics Daily for The Daily Caller.

“As a conservative (albeit, an admittedly iconoclastic one), it is vital that I maintain the freedom to call them like I see them,” he wrote.

An informal survey of 500 Huffington Post commenters conducted by The Daily Beast found that 81 percent opposed the acquisition while only 19 percent expressed some optimism about it.

“We made HuffPost and we are being abandoned,” one commenter wrote. “They will aim for the center. That’s where the big money is.”

Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post’s co-founder and editor-in-chief, had been trying to downplay the importance of partisan politics after the announcement.

“We don’t see ourselves as left,” Huffington told Politico. “And I think it’s one area where news consumers are ahead of the media, because they know that continuing to see everything that’s happening as a right-left issue is missing what’s happening, and is also making it much harder for us to be properly informed.”

— with earlier reporting by Eric W. Dolan

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Stella by Starlight
13 years ago

I was sick of HuffPo years ago. Now that the country is turning ultra con, she’s just riding the tide. Now we have even more of a conservative slant on our news. Good going, Arianna Asswipe: it’s all about the money. Dusty’s right “I have never met a rich person who said they had enough money.” The ultra rich think money is power.

I’m unsubscribing to HuffPo no matter how much of a pain in the ass it is. And I hope those writers come over to MMA. Bro will take good care of them.

13 years ago

As I said yesterday, I have never met a rich person who said they had enough money.

I haven’t been to HuffPo in years. But I did go over Monday and cancel my acct, they make it a pain in the arse, but I did it.

I hope the majority of her writers and commenter’s leave. It would be great karma for the woman who made millions for years off their backs and computers.

She also had the nads to tell a reporter than the site isn’t primarily a political site and it’s more centrist than leftist. Is she smoking crack now too?

13 years ago

I guess being a multi-millionaire was not enough for Arianna, now she’s a multi-multi-millionaire, maybe a billionaire. She’s gone back to her roots. The question is: How much money does a person need? The writer of 12 best-selling books, a lucrative divorce settlement from oil billionaire Michael Huffington and with 25 million visitors a month, HuffPo could be considered a nice little earner. Her latest fortune being made on the backs of citizen journalists, who are feeling a little let down right now, they provided most of the original content for what was basically a news aggregating site. A competing site will steal readers from HuffPo and a new home will be found for all the disappointed journalists who do not want to be part of a big corporation. Arianna Huffington has disappointed me with this sale, she could have gone public and raised 10s of millions for herself. So, to answer my own question “How much money does a person need?” Obviously quite a lot.

Michael John Scott
Reply to  Holte Ender
13 years ago

I heard a mini-analysis on MSNBC last night and they were saying that she doesn’t need the money. She wanted full editorial control of not only HuffPo but also of AOL news, which she now has. So instead of just one bully pulpit, i.e. HuffPo, she now has one HUGE bully pulpit, which is AOL news and HuffPo combined. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Reply to  Michael John Scott
13 years ago

Sell your shares in AOL, all the original content writers are fleeing, unless she decides to pay them, not likely.

13 years ago

I never went there much but it would be cool if some of the writers came over here Mike.

13 years ago

I hate to be the guy who says “I told you so,” but this is one of those moves you could see coming from a mile away. I didn’t need another reason not to read the Huffington Post, but now I have one.

Also, to those writers who would like a new home here, I highly recommend it. Great site to write for, and easy to work around your other life too.

Michael John Scott
Reply to  Michael Edward Kelly
13 years ago

I saw HuffPo change over the years too Michael. Thanks for the nice thoughts by the way 🙂

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