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SNL’s ‘Arianna’ on Clinton testimony: ‘The last thing Rand Paul grilled that long was a possum’
On Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update with Seth Meyers yesterday, “Arianna Huffington” commented on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s testimony, women in combat, and more. “I mean the last thing Rand Paul grilled that long was a possum,” she said of the line of questioning aimed at Clinton. She went…
Author Erica Jong rips Arianna Huffington for not paying writers
Novelist says what she thinks of media chiefs Erica Jong, author of the best-selling 1973 novel Fear of Flying (and many books since), has often courted controversy by saying in public just what she thinks. Now 70, she is still happy to speak out, as a US-based website called The…
El Huffington Post opens in Spain
El Huffington Post opened in Spain on Thursday, poking fun at the government’s handling of the economic crisis in typically irreverent style for the growing news and blogging empire. Founder Arianna Huffington, who launched The Huffington Post in the United States in 2005, flew into Madrid to help prepare the…
Huffington Post to launch streaming network
WASHINGTON — The Huffington Post on Thursday marked the first anniversary of its acquisition by AOL with an announcement that it plans to launch an online video streaming network. The HuffPost Streaming Network will launch this summer with 12 hours a day of original programming, to be increased to 16…
Celebrity, scandal merge at French HuffPost launch
Celebrity, scandal and new media converged in Paris Monday as shamed IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s wife returned to the spotlight to launch Le Huffington Post, a French take on the US news website. Anne Sinclair insisted her private life would not in any way affect news coverage in the first…
French version of Huffington Post online on Monday
The French version of the US socialite blogger Arianna Huffington’s news website, the Huffington Post, will go online Monday, hoping to repeat the success that made her an Internet multimillionaire. The team behind the French language ”HuffPo” will put the site on the web on Monday shortly before an 0830 GMT press conference, it said.…
Tech elites: U.S. online piracy bill mirrors Chinese, Iranian policies
An assembly of U.S. Internet elites, captains of the most successful online businesses, published an open letter to Congress on Wednesday urging lawmakers to think long and hard before adopting bills that would force wide-reaching changes to the structure of the Web. The letter, which will run as an advertisement…
‘Le Huffington Post’ to launch in France
The US news and opinion portal Huffington Post will next month launch a French-language edition, its first foray into non-anglophone Europe with plans for similar sites in Spain, Italy or Germany, its co-founder said on Monday. “We see this as our first foray into (the) euro zone,” Arianna Huffington, the president and editor-in-Chief…
Huffington Post rebuffs union boycott call
WASHINGTON — The Huffington Post rebuffed a union boycott call over its practice of using unpaid bloggers, saying most of them are “thrilled to contribute” despite not being paid. The Newspaper Guild, a union of US media workers with 26,000 members, urged contributors to The Huffington Post earlier this week…
Adbusters: The left built Huffington, and we can tear it down too
The purchase of the Huffington Post by AOL left many of the progressive writers and readers that made the site into a powerhouse looking for a new home. Adbusters magazine set out to unite those disaffected former supporters of Arianna Huffington’s flagship site by suggesting they use social media to…
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