Archive for the ‘huffington’ Category

HuffPost Goes Local: Introducing HuffPost Chicago

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Kind of strange to me. I don't think HuffPo national has come across entirely clear in mission ... and now HuffPo Chicago? And what about Chi-town News, a small citizen journalism upstart that's got a lot of momentum. Very odd seeing stories about Chicago on the front page of HuffPo ...

Arianna Huffington makes waves on the Web

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Her site - HuffingtonPost.com - has blossomed from a handful of staff to 50 and an audience of nearly 15 million visitors a month. Her Internet newspaper is attracting eyeballs and advertising that might otherwise gravitate to traditional media outlets. The site is also helping to set the media's agenda.Read ...

HuffingtonPost Launches Onion Knock Off Site

Friday, November 9th, 2007

236.com launches as faux-news comedy site. Huh? Yeah, seems like a s-t-r-e-t-c-h to me too.Read the full story

New Books By Alan Greenspan and Naomi Klein: One is Prophetic, One is Pathetic

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Klein shows how the crony capitalists running the Bush administration saw post-invasion Iraq as the perfect proving ground for all their pet free-market policies. The fantasy was that a privitazied and corporatized Iraq would become a free-market utopia that would spread the gospel of the market throughout the Middle East. ...