Arianna Huffington: Huffington Post Not a "Lefty" Site

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I get what Arianna Huffington is trying to do here. From her perspective, The Huffington Post is much more than a partisan internet outpost. Much of the content of the site has nothing whatsoever to do with politics. Much of the news there has more of an honest vibe than a lefty vibe (though there is significant overlap there, from this reader's perspective). To a righty, any news or information that does not have a rightward cant is ipso facto lefty. The reverse isn't exactly true, is it?

I think what she's trying to say, is that while the site may have selected stories that would appeal to a progressive audience, that the stories themselves were not written with bias. What I'm not so sure about, is if she's saying that henceforth HuffPo is going to change the way stories are selected.

Regardless, Huffington has a very narrow line to walk here. She's got to try to keep her current audience; largely progressives and liberals, and probably people who don't consider themselves to be politically affiliated at all. At the same time, she's trying to woo people who might've stayed away previously, because of the liberal label. To make her brand as inviting as possible, she's trying to assure us that there is no overwhelming political skew going on here.  So, I get what she's trying to do. But she's not pulling it off very well. Arianna is as in-your-face as a drag queen. . .there's just no way for her to come off subtle. She needs to borrow Stephen Colbert's line: the truth has a well-known liberal bias.

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Arianna: The Huffington Post is not a ‘lefty’ publication anymore



In a recent interview with The New York Times, Arianna Huffington revealed a bit of news that's not likely to show up on The Huffington Post's front page any time soon: the site is no longer "lefty" in its political bent. . .
 
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