Discussion for article #226856
Once again the HP enters a battle of wits unarmed.
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John Oliver would like to respond to Huffington Post, but he doesn’t meet Huff Post requirement of having a Facebook account in order to post a comment. Huffington Post is a case study in how to not run a website.
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I stopped wasting my time at HP years ago. Doubt it’s gotten better. Oliver can destroy anyone they’ve got in his sleep. They are probably delighted to be in the news.
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I was a early reader of the Post but soon soured as they keep stories on the site long after the they have either died or the story has changed to the point the original is wrong. They rewrite headlines and ofter use headlines that actually don’t relate to the story. HP has become more interested in clicks than real news. The site has way to much of crap about nothing than hard news. I realize that to fill all those pages you need print but filling them with the dead and Hollywood propaganda is a waste of time. I still quickly run through but never get beyond half the page on any page I open.
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Comedians - where the humor and the news are both better delivered.
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Oliver wins. HuffPo is not alone in creating vacuous, over-blown headlines, but it may be the best know. Between those headlines and the damn listicles, HuffPo has become a magnet for morons.
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I haven’t really been into the Post since about '09. Whenever they pivoted to the center I lost interest. It used to be something like a left-wing version of Drudge.
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I think Upworthy wins the award for the most hyperbolic headlines. “I thought this picture of a cute puppy was nice. But what happened next was a a punch to my soul.” “Your life will be irreversibly altered when you watch this guy eating lunch.”
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Countyerblessings here at TPM…
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Mainly because they both need a solid foundation or premise to start from if you want it to work.
There’s a reason a black guy walks into a bar can be the start of both a bad joke or a Fox News intro.
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Amazing how an immigrant, any immigrant could, say, marry a beard (Mike Huffington), claw up the ranks socially (Montecito, CA, DC, NYC), appear to be a ‘liberal’ and, end up grifting on talk shows, book tours and the like just long enough to compete in media by walking over the backs (NOT paying contributors) of the ‘little’ people who brought you to fame and fortune.
As satirists go, John Oliver has plenty to guide him then, cause nothing breeds success like hard work and willing victims if AOL/HPO is any example.
America, what a country!
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I haven’t read HuffPo in over a month. I think my IQ has risen a few points as a result.
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Before I admit having to look up “listicles” would a person be considered a moron if they had to look it up.
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HuffPo took a great formula, a winning quasi-liberal website, and a buttload of money----and ended up with a terrible simulacrum of Facebook, and in the process drove away all the liberals who made it a success in the first place.
It’s a study in hubris, failure, and Arianna’s overweening ego.
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C’mon people, HuffPo’s response was actually pretty funny! It was clever, and they were laughing with John Oliver, not poking fun at him.
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Every time I click on a link someone posts to HuffPo, I end up regretting it.
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Yeah, but they do have sideboob alerts.
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Working as designed.
Just another slip in the long slide to irrelevance for the Huffington post. It has became a pathetic joke.
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