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Sex Watch? Huffington Post Appeals To Masturbating Walrus Set

by Tommy Christopher | 2:59 pm, January 7th, 2010

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I’m not the only one who has noticed The Huffington Post’s march toward trashy headlines, but usually, these are confined to gossip or entertainment items that scream things like “WATCH: Nazareth Man Gets Totally CRUCIFIED!”

Now, it seems even HuffPo’s enviro-conscious “Green” section has succumbed to this condition with the blunt entreaty to “WATCH: Walrus Gives Himself Oral Pleasure (NSFW)“

My first response is “Why would I want to do that?” Still, I understand the curiosity at work here. Perhaps we have our first definitive translation of the phrase “Coo coo ca choo.”

I’m obviously familiar with the concept of a grabby headline. It’s just that the sheer volume of these blunt, shouting headlines to hype even the most minute items have a deadening effect. They also undercut Arianna Huffington’s recent high-minded entreaty to ignore stories like the Balloon Boy fiasco in favor of stories about homeless children. If they ran any such stories at HuffPo, they’d be under a banner like “WATCH: Kids Sleep in Things That are NOT HOUSES!”

For those of you who really want to see a walrus getting to know itself, I guess I’d rather have you watch it here than someplace else. Enjoy?

http://www.sailrabbits.com Magister

It may get me banned from over there, but I don’t pay a lot of attention to the Huffington Post.

The page layout is atrocious. The commenting system worthless (Who is going to read 5000+ comments?) and far too many stories just fall through their cracks. Something which has underlined their content problems are the local editions because then, you can easily see the stuff they’ve missed.
Pat Doherty

It’s about time.
Media Me

My ‘puter hates Huffpo. Take forever to load and terrible layout.

Aside from that, if you want to see trashy headlines, head straight over to Fox Nation. Now THAT’s trash!
BJL411

Though it’s an interesting topic one might see on a wildlife site, your first problem was going to HuffPo in the first place.

Not only a drooling-loving-Obama site run by a lady who’s ben in the country for yrs and yrs and still can’t speak english clearly, but the damn site loads insanely slow even on fast powerful pc’s.

Hard to believe anyone views that dumb site.
http://thehypervigilantobserver.blogspot.com/ Lex Wadelski

I agree with a previous poster… HP is balky to load, view and scroll down.

The layout is way too busy and A.D.D.-like

And the headlines with pix seem to…GO On FOREVER!

Yet, I usually view it daily. Just spend way less time with it out than I used to.

I missed the masturbating walrus.

What were the editors over there thinking?