Simon Owens p0wns HuffPo
June 4, 2009 · Posted in Media Criticism
Simon Owens does the legwork to show that the majority of Huffington Post front page stories are not “original reporting.” Check it out here.
Very reminiscent of a paper I did with Chris Roberts at South Carolina. Here’s the PDF.
FWIW, I’m less than enthused about HuffPo. Ariana Huffington rode the wave of blogging by gathering a bunch of A- B- and C-list celebrities, paying them NOTHING for their thoughts, and now she shuffles a lot of AP content through there as well. So she’s not unlike the traditional media elites in that respect.
I hope to repeat our study in the future. Oh, to have the time.
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