RRKING says . Speaking as a hair sylist and makeup artist , I say this with all kindness and candor . Miss H . may want to move back a little from the camera . Say , to Cleveland . Amen .

Everyone is up in arms about Huffington/AOL but no one bats an eye at News Corp/WSJ/Fox News. Republicans and their complicit media are scared that now a liberal is gonna have a media empire. The real question is why are all of these media owners foreigners? Rupert Murdoch Arianna Huffington?

“Well? As I see it, The Huffington Post’s (and, now, AOL’s) tilt or perceived bias is not what needs to be addressed or what is concerning people so much as its transparency and tone, as well as whether dissenting or alternate views will also be given an equal platform.”

The Fairness Doctrine?

Alex….

I sort of hate to even criticize you because you come across as so darn….nice. So, I’ll be nice as well in pointing out a couple of things in your article.

1. You said: ” The Huffington Post, is often criticized for allegations that its coverage has a left-wing bias.”

Well, there’s a reason for that. That website is about as far left as any site gets without completely losing all credibility. (Kos comes to mind as an example.) As an exercise in empiricism, go there and look at the reader’s comments on just about anything that isn’t drooling leftist pap. Reader comments, the give and take of the people who take the time to come to a site, are a genuine barometer of where the site lays politically. And most of the comments there are as vicious and far left as you can get.

2. You said: “Well? As I see it, The Huffington Post’s (and, now, AOL’s) tilt or perceived bias is not what needs to be addressed or what is concerning people so much as its transparency and tone, as well as whether dissenting or alternate views will also be given an equal platform.”

Its not perceived. It’s a very real left bias. But your point about there needing to be balance is valid and has nothjing to do with “the fairness doctrine”. As I’ve often said, this site leans left but allows commenters from both the far right AND the far left and everything in between to slug it out. Now, THAT’S fair. Try being a conservative commenter over at HuffPo. Heh. Good luck with that.

And finally, I have to say something about this piece of vacuuous anti-thought from colrmebadd:

“Republicans and their complicit media are scared that now a liberal is gonna have a media empire.”

Great Ceasar’s ghost….do you not thisnk that the majority of the media swings left right now? This isn’t going to change a thing. There will be no “empire”. In fact I suspect a giant belly-flop is on the way if they don’t handle this with care.

“Well? As I see it, The Huffington Post’s (and, now, AOL’s) tilt or perceived bias is not what needs to be addressed”

Oh, of course not. It only matters when we’re talking about Fox News or people on the right. Who by the way, also tries to bring different opinions and perspectives to stories, but doesn’t get anywhere near the understanding that left wingers like Alex Alvarez give other left wingers.

Ariana reminds me of the “no labels” movement, same progressive values without the labels. Seriously Ariana, do you think we’re that stupid?

http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

arianna (aka: HUFF-and-PUFF) helps put the LUNATIC in lunatic-left.

For those that don’t know of her lunatic history, fact is she was once a solid, responsible conservative republican! Then her rich husband divorced her and she couldn’t handle such absolute rejection and she went totally, completely insane and, naturally, sunk down into the DARK SIDE of d-crat socialism.

Clearly, she still is in desperate need of psychological counseling – like most d-crat socialists – to correct her outrageously flawed views of America and Americans and to stop the destructive self-loathing from which she – like all d-crat socialists – suffers.

AOL, RIP – you will soon join M(ore)S(ocialism)from N(itwit)B(iased-socialist)C(lowns) at the bottom of the lamestream socialist media slime pit.

Color Me Badd said:
Everyone is up in arms about Huffington/AOL but no one bats an eye at News Corp/WSJ/Fox News. Republicans and their complicit media are scared that now a liberal is gonna have a media empire. The real question is why are all of these media owners foreigners? Rupert Murdoch Arianna Huffington?

I’m sorry, but I just read this and have to comment.

A media empire? LOL!

She just sold out her core followers to corporate America, AND, tossed her posters under the bus with the No Left/No Right proclamation.
- and AOL went from something like 70 million users 10 years ago to 4 million now!

If it’s an Empire, it’s more like a Cleveland Cavalier Empire!

Arianna’s identity crisis has been persisting for decades—serious writer [a Callas bio] or scurrilous golddigger [a faux marriage to a Cali gazillionaire], right-wing Republican commentator or left-wing Gonzo journalist; serious political candidate or hopeless opportunist [she came in 10th in a field of 5 for CAL guv race]; Joan Rivers impersonator or Joan Rivers snarkiest-political-junkie contest winner? Arianna sounds like Ashley Simpson when the lip-synch equipment breaks in mid-aria.

AOL is probably the most wonderful example of the Bernie Madoff effect working in the dot.com business arena. This company fired its CEO & kicked him upstairs to do “dreaming out loud” or some such hokum [Steve Case is still a byword for "better be lucky than smart."]

“Arianna Huffington has long been a vocal member of the Democratic Party (although she happens to be a former Republican)”

She was more than a “former Republican.” Huffington was a hard-core republican to the right of 1994 Newt Gingrich…and at that time, she was “a vocal member” of the GOP. When she couldn’t hitch her wagon to her rich ex-hubbie (a republican Senate candidate who was worth several hundred million dollars) she INSTANTLY changed her “strong held beliefs” and became if liberal.

That chick is as phony as her accent.

Color Me Badd said:
Everyone is up in arms about Huffington/AOL but no one bats an eye at News Corp/WSJ/Fox News. Republicans and their complicit media are scared that now a liberal is gonna have a media empire. The real question is why are all of these media owners foreigners? Rupert Murdoch Arianna Huffington?

Those who are “up in arms” are the socialist wing of the dem party (which is pretty much most of the party.) You libs hate everything about free markets, so when a free-market corp buys the H. Post, you guys get all crazy.

Arianna asks “Is this left ?”… Ha Ha !!… Thats like me asking Arianna “Are you dumb ?”… Big fat yes to both questions !!!!…

Yeah, does she not read her own site? All they do there is repost every bogus far-right chain email they can get their hands on and then lulz at them, making as if the birthers and their ilk are a true example of real conservativism. Huffing Post, Daily Kos (Chaos) Democratic Underground, same moronic junk and as far as I’m conserned, AOL has just paid a huge fortune for a bunch of trash.

Gah, I meant ‘conservatism’ and ‘concerned’