[lbo-talk] Massing: The News Biz attempts to stabilize the patient

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Sep 8 10:24:47 PDT 2009


On Sep 8, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Michael Pollak wrote:


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> Long, details, but interesting if you're into this sort of thing:
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> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23050

From which, this:

"Such moves rankle advocates of free access to the Internet. Among the most vocal is Arianna Huffington, the cofounder and editor in chief of the popular Internet news-and-blog site The Huffington Post."

A multimillionaire with lots of VC money who pays almost none of her writers. Easy for her to take this position, especially when she's editing it from David Geffen's yacht.

Doug



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