Wednesday - February 09, 2011
HAS AOL LOST ITS MIND ALONG WITH ITS MONEY?
Since I can’t say it better, I’ll say nothing except ... Mary Ellen is correct in all particulars. This Brit has it pegged.
As America’s conservatives see it: ‘Huffington’s House of Horrors’
By Mary Ellen Synon
The online news website The Huffington Post is being bought out by internet giant AOL for $315m (£196m). To anyone under 40 the deal is just another internet manoeuvre, this time between the tired and in troubled AOL and the American leftwing’s favourite ‘news aggregator’ Arianna Huffington.
Or Arianna Stassinopoulos as she will always be to those of us over 40 and who were around London when the Greek was making her climb up the ladder.
The last time I saw her she was sitting across from me at a small private dinner party at a club in Pall Mall. The party was given for Enoch Powell and his wife Pamela. Arianna was working hard at impressing Powell and all the rest of us (some Fleet St stars were there, so I mostly kept my head down and stayed grateful for escaping the newsroom that night). But the abiding impression was that everything she said had been rehearsed, even down to the hand gestures. She was like a sixth form girl competing for a prize in ‘declamation.’
Now she’ll be pocketing AOL’s millions to add to the millions she took from her failed marriage to a bisexual oil heir. But there’s more to this than just another lotto win for the Greek. Here’s what Brent Bozell, Media Research Center president and publisher of NewsBusters had to say about the deal. Bozell, if you don’t know his work, is one of America’s sharpest commentators on journalism. (His mother, just by the way, was the sister of William F Buckley):
‘This proves AOL News has lost its mind. They must be in such dire straits that they’ve been blinded by the millions and think an acquisition of The Huffington Post is worth sacrificing credibility and objectivity. AOL News is fooling only itself in thinking there is no journalistic conflict in merging with a hate-filled, vicious, radically left-wing rag.’
Posted by peiper
on 02/09/2011 at 01:15 PM
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