Consolidation of the media – 21st Century media outlet to be absorbed by 20th Century has-been.

RIP Huffington Post – to be bought by AOL.

And you thought your day started out well.

I really like(d) Huffington Post. They had everything – bloggers, journalists, and the best part was the commenting.

However, I started seeing some bad signs – the increased controlled comment moderation, the partnerships with various traditional media (AP, MSNBC) hiring of traditional establishment media figures (Howard Fineman).

And now this … bought out by a washed up, spun-off, has-been company that Time-Warner ate up and puked back out (i.e. ‘spun off’).

So sad.

This person sums it up -

I stick to my original thoughts that this will dilute the HuffPost brand, represent a loss of independence in an already overly-corporatized media landscape and finally; why bother? Huffington does not need the money. The whole point of being Huffington is that you don’t need the money so you can speak your mind.


Not anymore.