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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.…
‘Run Hillary 2012′ robocalls begin to surface
For ardent supporters of Hillary Clinton, the dream of her becoming president still runs very deep. According to the Huffington Post, robocalls from a group called “Run Hilary 2012″ have been received in New York and North Carolina. The group’s website has a petition saying, “Secretary of State Hillary Rodham…
DOJ officially retracts ‘$16 dollar a muffin’ story
The Department of Justice (DOJ) officially retracted a report that it paid an average of $16 for muffins at a 2009 conference at a Hilton hotel, a story that most media outlets — particularly Fox News — initially jumped on as an ideal example of “government waste.” On Friday afternoon,…
Watch the 100 best movie f-bombs in 13 minutes
An enterprising film fan put together this video of at least 100 uses of the word “fuck” in movies. The list is categorized by the type of use: motherfuck, as a noun, as an adjective/adverb, as a question, and so on. As The Huffington Post notes, movie creators have to…
Gallup: Support for Obama dips slightly but stays high among Democrats
According to a new Gallup poll, support for President Obama has fallen slightly on a national level, but remains high among Democrats. The president’s over-all approval rating went down one point from the previous survey period from 44 percent to 43 percent. However, 78 percent of Democrats approve of how…
Huffington Post traffic surpasses NYTimes.com
WASHINGTON — The Huffington Post received more traffic than the website of The New York Times in May, the first time it has surpassed NYTimes.com in unique visitors, tracking firm comScore said Thursday. ComScore said HuffingtonPost.com received 35.6 million unique visitors in May, up from 29.9 million the previous month,…
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…
Readers, bloggers sound off on Huff Post sale
WASHINGTON — When The Huffington Post was sold to AOL last Monday for $315 million, its founder, Arianna Huffington, was feted as a new media pioneer. Not everyone is celebrating, however. Huffington has been facing a backlash over the sale — from readers worried about what it will mean for…
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…
Huffington’s partner at AOL a ‘conservative’ who gave to GOP candidate: report
Progressive fans of the Huffington Post aren’t too happy about the site being acquired by America On-Line. Now, they may have another reason to lament the purchase. A source close to AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, a former Google executive hired in 2009, told Business Insider that while he “calls himself…
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