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HuffPo wants to be a newspaper

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

In just a little over two years, The Huffington Post has gone from being a side project for founder Arianna Huffington — whom many saw as an intellectual dilettante playing around on the Internet — to a new-media powerhouse whose Web traffic is larger than that of many trad ... Continue reading »

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  • shafqat

    1 year ago

    Nice post. I found it quite interesting that you did exactly what Arianna was calling out: presenting both sides of the story without taking a delilberate stance. I don't necessarily agree that her propsal for a new kind of media (one that does not present objectivity) is correct. But the fact that you presented her views and then linked to an equally opposing view was a reflection of how journalism works today. Is that kind of neutrality a bad thing? Quite the opposite - you're presenting the facts and the necessary information, I can work out an opinion.
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    Thanks for the comment, Shafqat. I actually think Arianna and I are
    both right :-) I think the point she's making is that in some cases, a
    false objectivity is actually a barrier to understanding, and strong
    opinion can be a good solution. But I don't think she would be opposed
    to fairness or balance, which I think is a slightly different thing.
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  • shafqat

    1 year ago

    Agreed. False objectivity in the name of balance is dangerous. Often, that leads to distortion of the truth, which is not only a barrier to understanding, but a threat to democracy.
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