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Note to self for bucket list: Get hired, and then work at the Huffington Post just long enough so I can say I worked next to whomever is wearing that horse mask.
Hey, we did that once.
Zombies take over HuffPost.
The Huffington Post tends to be under constant fire for what many call over-aggregating - taking too much content from other sources and making it their own. It’s always been more of an issue with print stories than video, but that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. The photo above is from a video embedded in a story on HuffPost about Charla Nash, who was attached by a chimpanzee in 2008. While the video is from the Today Show, you can see AOL has placed the video in their own player based on the “AOL” bug in the lower right. Rather than embed the video from The Today Show, Armstrong, Huffington & co. are ripping it straight from the TV, cutting the important parts, and placing it in their own player so the streams & ad views count for AOL - who really seems to need it, since the stock has seen record lows lately.
Here’s the giant splash page NBC created for the story, complete with an embed code for the video. You know, in case anyone wanted to share the story on their own news site/blog and give credit to the creator. -Matt
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Despite its recent hiring spree, the Huffington Post’s bread and butter is content curation. Their rationale to those creating the original is that they’re driving traffic back to the source so it’s actually win-win all around.
Yesterday, Ad Age’s Simon Dumenco took exception to that, writing that what’s really going on is isn’t so much fair use as unethical aggregation.
As an example, he looks at the traffic stats for an article he wrote that the HuffPo later picked up. End result, 57 new page views from people clicking through from the HuffPo piece to the Ad Age piece. By comparison, Techmeme drove over 750 page views.
Ender result: Hufffington Post suspends writer, apologizes for over-aggregated post.
In a letter from Peter S. Goodman, Executive Business Editor of AOL Huffington Post Media Group, to Dumenco, Goodman writes:
We have made a very substantial investment in original reporting here, bringing in dozens of new writers in recent months. And while we will continue to curate the news for our audience, what occurred in this instance is entirely unacceptable and collides directly with the values that are at work in our newsroom. We have zero tolerance for this sort of conduct. Given that, the writer of the offending post has been suspended indefinitely.
More broadly, your complaint has prompted us to redouble our efforts to make sure our reporters and editors understand that this sort of thing is unambiguously unacceptable.
You think?
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of course you can claim that. word has it even Joe Biden said, “This is a big fuckin’ deal.”
at least I can say I knew her when…
Twitter has suspended the @HuffPostNews account after a flurry of Tweets exclaiming “Conservatives rule!!!!!” and targeting “left-wing assholes.” Individuals mentioned include Pres. Barack Obama and MSNBC commentators Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow.
continue reading… tvnewser
Keith Olbermann discusses The Huffington Post’s question from Nico Pitney to President Obama. Pitney relayed a question from an unknown unnamed person in Iran who asked and sent two questions electronically.
