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Huffington Post stories: 22 news summaries

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PILING ON

 Fox Caught Fudging 
 Footage Again 

This-just-in Palin video actually from '08 campaign

Nov 18, 09 7:39 PM CST
(Newser) - The incident isn’t on par with Jon Stewart catching Fox News host Sean Hannity passing off old video as new, but lefty blogger Faiz Shakir found the network doing something similar today. Noting huge crowds for Sarah Palin’s book tour, host Gregg Jarrett alerts viewers to “pictures... More »

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Fox News • Jon Stewart • Sean Hannity • Sarah Palin • Huffington Post • liberal media • conservative media • Fox News misleading footage • Gregg Jarrett • Sarah Palin book tour

OPINION

 Oh, Poor Polanski, Child Rapist 

He pleaded guilty and fled. How can anyone rationalize that?

Sep 28, 09 1:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Kate Harding would like to remind everyone crowing about the injustice of arresting a 76-year-old man who’s put in 31 years of exile that Roman Polanski is a fugitive and, coincidentally, a child rapist. The director “gave a 13-year-old girl a Quaalude and champagne,” according to her... More »

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California • fugitive • guilty plea • extradition • film director • Roman Polanski • movies • Huffington Post • child rape • Samantha Geimer • criminal prosecution

OPINION

Huffington Post: A Hotbed of Junk Medicine

Unpaid bloggers push enemas for swine flu, vaccine hokum

Jul 30, 09 7:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - During the height of swine flu panic, a Huffington Post blogger advised dumping the Tamiflu and sticking with "deep-cleansing enemas," which will supposedly keep you influenza-free and help you lose weight, too. HuffPo is a hotbed of junk medicine, Dr. Rahul K. Parikh writes in Salon, with... More »

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vaccination • Arianna Huffington • alternative medicine • Huffington Post • blogs • junk science • swine flu

OPINION

 Gawker Catches HuffPo 
 Falling for Hoax 




Arianna must be thrilled, Gawker blogger muses

Jul 22, 09 7:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - An airport in Central Park? Sounds ridiculous, but the Huffington Post fell for it yesterday—much to the delight and amusement of Gawker. HuffPo ran a satirical story on its homepage last night (caught in a screenshot by Gawker before it was removed) with what appeared to be a straight... More »

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online media • New York City • Manhattan • airport • hoax • Gawker • Central Park • Huffington Post

opinion

Bloggers Differ on Merits
of HuffPo Question


Jun 23, 09 7:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Calderone of Politico suggests that the Huffington Post and the White House got a little too cozy today before President Obama's press conference. "In what appeared to be a coordinated exchange," Obama called on HuffPo reporter Nico Pitney for a question on Iran, and he seemed to... More »

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Iran • press conference • Huffington Post • President Obama • White House press corps • Nico Pitney

OPINION

Parasitic, Tabloid HuffPo Just Pretends to Do Journalism

The 'supposedly revolutionary über-blog' wears no clothes: Dumenco

Jun 22, 09 4:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Syracuse University’s SI Newhouse journalism school recently awarded Arianna Huffington one of their lifetime achievement awards, an honor that strikes Simon Dumenco as absurd, he writes for Advertising Age. It sounds like a brutally ironic joke: a school for training journalists honors someone who’s built a popular website... More »

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media • tabloids • gossip • blog • Huffington Post • aggregator • photos • Simon Dumenco

Palin Lawyer Blasts Plagiarism Charges

Huff Post blogger accused Palin of "repeatedly" lifting Gingrich words

Jun 8, 09 4:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin's attorney has ripped charges by a Huffington Post blogger that she plagiarized phrases from a Newt Gingrich article. Palin "repeatedly lifted" Gingrich's wording when she introduced Ronald Reagan's son in Anchorage last week, wrote Geoffrey Dunn, who's writing a book on Palin. But Palin's lawyer said she... More »

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Newt Gingrich • plagiarism • Ronald Reagan • blogger • Sarah Palin • Huffington Post

(Newser) - The Huffington Post censored a video of young people in Israel using using racial slurs to attack President Obama, and Gawker wants to know why. Max Blumenthal, who shot the film, says a HuffPost administrator told him the clip lacked “any real news value.” Notes Blumenthal: “For... More »

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Israel • censorship • video • Gawker • racial slurs • Internet censorship • Huffington Post • President Obama • Max Blumenthal

(Newser) - In the battle for the blogosphere, left-leaning sites are clobbering their conservative counterparts, thanks mostly to the Huffington Post, David Kaplan writes for paidContent. Liberal sites attracted 6.4 million unique visitors in April, to 4.8 million for conservative sites. Of those, 5.6 million were Huffington Post hits,... More »

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media • traffic • Drudge Report • DailyKos • Michelle Malkin • Tucker Carlson • Huffington Post • blogs • MyDD • TheDailyCaller.com

OPINION

Web Will Make Conservatives Miss the Times


May 27, 09 11:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Conservatives have delighted in making a piñata out of the New York Times, but they’re not going to like the post-Times world, writes Francis Wilkinson of The Week. “Like most powerful, entrenched institutions, the Times has a deep bias in favor of the way... More »

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New York Times • conservative • online news • journalism • media bias • Huffington Post

Tucker Carlson Plans Rightie News Site

HuffPo-like site will try to 'tell the truth, and be accurate,' pundit says

May 27, 09 9:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Conservative pundit Tucker Carlson plans to launch a news website to serve as a right-leaning alternative to the Huffington Post, reports The Hill. The focus of TheDailyCaller.com will be "adding facts to the conversation" and driving the news cycle. "It will not be a forum for discussing... More »

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Tucker Carlson • pundits • Huffington Post • TheDailyCaller.com

HuffPo Starts Investigative Journo Venture

Site steps in as daily newspapers fold or
cut reporting staffs

Mar 30, 09 11:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Laid-off journalists, take heart: The Huffington Post, aiming to take up the slack as daily newspapers shrink staffs, is about to fund an investigative team that will begin by casting critical eyes on the economy. Ten staff journalists, coordinating with freelancers, will provide work to other sites at the same... More »

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journalism • online newspapers • Arianna Huffington • Huffington Post • newspaper industry • investigative journalism

 Why Obama's Everywhere 
 You Look, Listen, Read  

President looks to get past media filter

Mar 24, 09 11:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - When it came to getting past what he called “the media filter,” President Bush’s favorite strategy was to go around it. President Obama’s style is more to go over, under, around, and through, courting both the new and mainstream media in an effort to communicate directly... More »

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media • online media • New York Times • talk radio • blogger • 60 Minutes • Huffington Post • niche • Robert Gibbs • President Obama • White House press corps

OPINION

Print Times Not Quite Dead, But Hope Lies in Its Ashes

Journalism faces a challenge, but hardly a disaster

Jan 7, 09 3:36 PM CST
(Newser) - We know it’s coming, that day when print newspapers cease to exist, but it won’t be this year, right? Maybe, maybe not, Michael Hirschorn writes in the Atlantic, and it wouldn’t necessarily be a disaster. The New York Times is in trouble—it could default on $400... More »

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Internet • newspaper • online media • New York Times • advertising • journalism • online newspapers • print journalism • Huffington Post • economic downturn • newspaper industry

OPINION

HuffPo Worth $200M?
Em, More Like $2M

Comparing site to Salon's performance deflates the hype

Jan 5, 09 1:41 PM CST
(Newser) - The Huffington Post stunned the media world when it scooped up $25 million last month from Oak Investment Partners for an undisclosed stake, but industry tongue-waggers who put the uberblog's value between $100 million and $200 million are full of it, writes Simon Dumenco in AdAge. To "anybody... More »

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media • journalism • venture capital • American media • new media • visitors • Huffington Post • Salon

David Gregory
to Host Meet
the Press

38-year-old White House correspondent will replace Russert

Dec 2, 08 6:59 AM CST
(Newser) - David Gregory is about to get the nod as host of NBC’s Meet the Press, reports Huffington Post. The chief White House correspondent has been a top contender for the spot since Tim Russert’s death in June. An announcement is expected as soon as today, reports Politico,... More »

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Tim Russert • Meet the Press • Huffington Post • Tom Brokaw • David Gregory

ANALYSIS

'Rightosphere' Hopes to Reshape GOP

Bloggers hope to catch GOP up to Democrats on harnessing the internet

Nov 18, 08 1:26 PM CST
(Newser) - The election of Barack Obama has energized conservative bloggers, who see a spell in opposition as an opportunity ideal for reshaping the party, writes Walter Alarkon for the Hill. Conservatives in the “rightosphere” are eying the progress the left’s “netroots” made during the Bush years, when sites... More »

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blogosphere • Internet • Republican • GOP • conservative • lefties • Daily Kos • right wingers • right-wing media • Huffington Post • rightosphere

Writer Stabbed Estranged Wife 222 Times

HuffPo blogger Carol Anne Burger killed gay partner, then herself

Oct 30, 08 10:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - On Oct. 22, one day after last blogging about the election for the Huffington Post, writer Carol Anne Burger fatally stabbed her estranged gay spouse 222 times with a screwdriver, the Palm Beach Post reports; Burger committed suicide 2 days later. Burger and Jessica Kalish, a software executive, had been... More »

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Florida • depression • crime • murder • murder-suicide • love • Huffington Post • Carol Anne Burger • Jessica Kalish

 Paris Mom Blasts
 'Wasteful' McCain Ad

Attack on Barack way to pick a prez, grumbles Mac contributor Kathy Hilton

Aug 4, 08 2:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Paris Hilton's mom has written a scathing response to John McCain's ad comparing Barack Obama's popularity with the tabloid celebrity of Paris Hilton. McCain campaign contributor Kathy Hilton rips the ad as a waste of  time and money in a blog in the Huffington Post. More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Paris Hilton • Kathy Hilton • Huffington Post

ANALYSIS

Left Breaks News; Right Can't Fix It

Liberals add reporting
to arsenal; pro-GOP sites mainly comment

Jul 24, 08 7:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - The left is using the Internet far more effectively than the right, Jonathan Martin writes on Politico. While conservative political sites are principally opinion, lefty destinations like the Huffington Post and Talking Points Memo tread the line between reportage and commentary, breaking stories ignored by the mainstream media that advance... More »

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John McCain • Internet • GOP • conservative • McCain 2008 • liberal • Huffington Post • Talking Points Memo

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