HuffPost
The Huffington Post (often shortened to HuffPost or HuffPo) is a political group weblog founded by Arianna Huffington and Kenneth Lerer. Begun on May 9, 2005, it is notable because of its early success and prominence as a predominantly leftist news and commentary outlet, and its feature of Huffington's network of prominent friends from various fields and viewpoints. Its name is most likely a play on The Washington Post, the prominent United States newspaper.
In addition to regular, almost-daily columns by Huffington and a core group of contributors (notably Harry Shearer, John Conyers, Cindy Sheehan), the HuffPost has featured notable celebrity contributors from politics, journalism, business, and entertainment (Norman Mailer, John Cusack, and Bill Maher, to name a few), as well as other relative unknowns. Because of the prominence and access of its contributors, the HuffPost regularly publishes scoops of current news stories, otherwise providing links to selected prominent news stories, providing a left counterpoint to the link-heavy style of The Drudge Report. Compared to other left blogs like the expertise-heavy Znet or the long-established Daily Kos, the HuffPost draws a balance between hard news commentary and celebrity opinion features.
The blog's coverage is composed primarily of U.S. politics.
Controversy
16 March 2006: George Clooney stated that he didn't compose the blog post that appeared on the Huffington Post. Arianna Huffington pieced it together from quotes of his television interviews without his permission and allegedly threatened him that exposing the controversy would be bad for his career. [1]
22 June 2006: The Guardian newspaper has reported on alleged suppression of Huffington Post blog writer Peter Rost [2] after he found evidence of harassment by Post technology manager Andy Yaco-Mink [3]
24 June 2006: Jonah Peretti, who is a partner and director of technology for the Huffington Post, announced that based on Peter Rost's allegations, "From this point onward, HuffPost staff will never make critical comments on contributor blog posts. --JP"[4]
27 June 2006: Huffington Post deletes all "Readers' favorite comments," in response to massive reader fury about how Peter Rost was treated and many of those responses being voted "Readers' favorite comment." [5]
Contributors
Celebrity bloggers include current or former politicians:
Prominent journalists & authors include:
Among the actors, directors, and producers featured have been:
Business people featured include:
Others include:
Advance publicity claimed forthcoming articles from:
External links
Notes
- ^ http://www.usmagazine.com/blog/2006/03/16/the-daily-clooney/
- ^ http://peterrost.blogspot.com/index.html
- ^ http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1803833,00.html
- ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonah-peretti/peter-rosts-accusations_b_23721.html
- ^ http://peterrost.blogspot.com/2006/06/huffington-post-in-panicky-retreat.html