Let's make fun of them. They may not be as bad as some of the other news sources out there, but it didn't take me that long to find out why they suck now.
I will let this post do the talking because it really explains all of this shit so well. People in the Breitbart thread were bringing this site up and I just remembered that I had wanted to do a thread on this website for a while but forgot.
http://matt-rock.newsvine.com/_news...hy-im-officially-done-reading-huffington-post
Simply put? The Huffington Post sucks now. There's no gentle or polite way of putting that, so there it is. The items on my list of complaints might seem small to some of you, but for the past year, this has been a war of attrition, and each of these items continuously pecked away and poked me in the chest until I finally decided today that a little thing was big enough to call upon that aforementioned courage of my convictions. What, you're probably wondering, are my reasons? Well, here are a few of them...
They have the journalistic integrity of Fox News. That's not to say they agree with Fox on much of anything... they obviously don't. But their level of journalism is roughly on par with that of Fox. You see, I appreciated what Huffington Post was for me personally. I considered it to be a guilty pleasure for liberals, like Keith Olbermann used to be before his downfall. So long as you're getting real news from real sources, there's no harm in hearing people you agree with espouse on those same issues. What makes Fox News dangerous is that quite a few people consider what they do to be real news. But in the past year, Huffington Post transformed. They aren't like MSNBC anymore, dishing up selective facts that support our mutually-shared ideological positions. Instead, they're more like Fox News now, sensationalizing headlines and stories, making martyrs out of their stubbed-toe brethren... it's been getting pretty ridiculous, and I'd feel plenty stupid if I ripped Fox News one day and read the Huffington Post the next.
Their content is nothing short of abysmal now. It's not that they use the wrong "there" in a sentence, or fail to use Oxford commas, but their writing tends to pull a D- grade most of the time, in my view anyway. Their content is rife with typos. They leave vast swaths of critical information out of articles. And don't even get me started on "HuffPo Live." They had a golden opportunity to create a free, proper news network on the web, doing what cable news has failed to do since the mid-1990's... report the news. Instead, the network is packed to the brim with special interest stories, puff pieces, roundtable discussions... all the things we all passionately hate about cable news, squished together in one easy-to-hate place. Their content needed a revamp a year ago, and it keeps getting worse. I think I can safely say that most of the people who've read my content know that I'm not an arrogant person. But if you were to ask me if I could do it better, the answer would be a resounding "yes."
Their endless objectification of women. Go to Huffington Post right now. Count how many headlines you can see before you come across an article on their front page discussing sheer dresses, nude-colored fabrics, wardrobe malfunctions, nip-slips, bikini bods, or some other content of that nature which is purely designed to turn women into an object they can sell to readers in the hopes of making them come back the next day. Last summer, I remember seeing one article that showed off some celebrity's overly-sensual bikini. Right beneath that article... I mean literally, in the box directly under it... was an article talking about how women should be proud of their image despite what they're built like. Yeah. F#@%ing Huffington Post.
The Newsroom. This is probably going to fall into the category of "really Matt? You're complaining about this?" But I can't stand how with every opportunity they have, the Huffington Post rips into Aaron Sorkin's HBO series "The Newsroom," bashing it endlessly and claiming it's a terrible program. I really love that show. It's a breath of fresh air to see something intelligent in a televised drama for a change. Maybe if I saw something intelligent show up on Huffington Post once in a while, I'd still consider myself a fan of theirs?
Silencing the opposition. It isn't a conspiracy theory drummed up by the right, it's an honest-to-Bob fact: Huffington Post silences conservative points of view on their site. I've followed enough threads there to have seen it myself, repeatedly. Sometimes it makes sense. I'm just as sick of hearing conservatives blather about George Soros or birth certificates as anyone. But they really do silence anyone that says anything they don't like. Don't believe me? I recently commented that I do not approve of President Obama sending arms to the Syrian rebels. That's the truth... I don't think it's a good idea. It looks, sounds, tastes, smells, and feels way too similar to Ronald Reagan arming Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban in the 1980's when Russia was at war with Afghanistan. That comment was published on Huffington Post for all of 17 minutes. Someone on their staff decided to remove it, without word or warning. Why? You'll have to ask them. They also delete any posts that are critical of the Huffington Post, even if you're perfectly on topic. Can you imagine if I deleted every comment where someone was critical of an article I wrote? I can think of a few articles in the past where I'd have two hundred fewer comments, or more.
They have been publishing low quality articles like this one for years now.
They continue to publish crap and have crappy comments from idiots that are also worthy of being mocked.
Typical quality of the comment sections:
It came from this piece that Arianna Huffington wrote herself.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arian...ump_b_8177692.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063
I'll find more shit to post later.
I will let this post do the talking because it really explains all of this shit so well. People in the Breitbart thread were bringing this site up and I just remembered that I had wanted to do a thread on this website for a while but forgot.
http://matt-rock.newsvine.com/_news...hy-im-officially-done-reading-huffington-post
Simply put? The Huffington Post sucks now. There's no gentle or polite way of putting that, so there it is. The items on my list of complaints might seem small to some of you, but for the past year, this has been a war of attrition, and each of these items continuously pecked away and poked me in the chest until I finally decided today that a little thing was big enough to call upon that aforementioned courage of my convictions. What, you're probably wondering, are my reasons? Well, here are a few of them...
They have the journalistic integrity of Fox News. That's not to say they agree with Fox on much of anything... they obviously don't. But their level of journalism is roughly on par with that of Fox. You see, I appreciated what Huffington Post was for me personally. I considered it to be a guilty pleasure for liberals, like Keith Olbermann used to be before his downfall. So long as you're getting real news from real sources, there's no harm in hearing people you agree with espouse on those same issues. What makes Fox News dangerous is that quite a few people consider what they do to be real news. But in the past year, Huffington Post transformed. They aren't like MSNBC anymore, dishing up selective facts that support our mutually-shared ideological positions. Instead, they're more like Fox News now, sensationalizing headlines and stories, making martyrs out of their stubbed-toe brethren... it's been getting pretty ridiculous, and I'd feel plenty stupid if I ripped Fox News one day and read the Huffington Post the next.
Their content is nothing short of abysmal now. It's not that they use the wrong "there" in a sentence, or fail to use Oxford commas, but their writing tends to pull a D- grade most of the time, in my view anyway. Their content is rife with typos. They leave vast swaths of critical information out of articles. And don't even get me started on "HuffPo Live." They had a golden opportunity to create a free, proper news network on the web, doing what cable news has failed to do since the mid-1990's... report the news. Instead, the network is packed to the brim with special interest stories, puff pieces, roundtable discussions... all the things we all passionately hate about cable news, squished together in one easy-to-hate place. Their content needed a revamp a year ago, and it keeps getting worse. I think I can safely say that most of the people who've read my content know that I'm not an arrogant person. But if you were to ask me if I could do it better, the answer would be a resounding "yes."
Their endless objectification of women. Go to Huffington Post right now. Count how many headlines you can see before you come across an article on their front page discussing sheer dresses, nude-colored fabrics, wardrobe malfunctions, nip-slips, bikini bods, or some other content of that nature which is purely designed to turn women into an object they can sell to readers in the hopes of making them come back the next day. Last summer, I remember seeing one article that showed off some celebrity's overly-sensual bikini. Right beneath that article... I mean literally, in the box directly under it... was an article talking about how women should be proud of their image despite what they're built like. Yeah. F#@%ing Huffington Post.
The Newsroom. This is probably going to fall into the category of "really Matt? You're complaining about this?" But I can't stand how with every opportunity they have, the Huffington Post rips into Aaron Sorkin's HBO series "The Newsroom," bashing it endlessly and claiming it's a terrible program. I really love that show. It's a breath of fresh air to see something intelligent in a televised drama for a change. Maybe if I saw something intelligent show up on Huffington Post once in a while, I'd still consider myself a fan of theirs?
Silencing the opposition. It isn't a conspiracy theory drummed up by the right, it's an honest-to-Bob fact: Huffington Post silences conservative points of view on their site. I've followed enough threads there to have seen it myself, repeatedly. Sometimes it makes sense. I'm just as sick of hearing conservatives blather about George Soros or birth certificates as anyone. But they really do silence anyone that says anything they don't like. Don't believe me? I recently commented that I do not approve of President Obama sending arms to the Syrian rebels. That's the truth... I don't think it's a good idea. It looks, sounds, tastes, smells, and feels way too similar to Ronald Reagan arming Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban in the 1980's when Russia was at war with Afghanistan. That comment was published on Huffington Post for all of 17 minutes. Someone on their staff decided to remove it, without word or warning. Why? You'll have to ask them. They also delete any posts that are critical of the Huffington Post, even if you're perfectly on topic. Can you imagine if I deleted every comment where someone was critical of an article I wrote? I can think of a few articles in the past where I'd have two hundred fewer comments, or more.
They have been publishing low quality articles like this one for years now.
They continue to publish crap and have crappy comments from idiots that are also worthy of being mocked.
Typical quality of the comment sections:
It came from this piece that Arianna Huffington wrote herself.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arian...ump_b_8177692.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063
I'll find more shit to post later.
