Posts Tagged ‘Citizen’s Journalism’

Huffington’s Plunder – Chris Hedges, Truthdig

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

This column about the sale to AOL should not be ignored.

The sale … is emblematic of this new paradigm of American journalism. The Huffington Post, as Stephen Colbert pointed out when he stole the entire content of The Huffington Post and rechristened it, The Colbuffington Re-post, produces little itself. The highly successful site, like most Internet sites, is largely pirated from other sources, especially traditional news organizations, or is the product of unpaid writers who are rechristened “citizen journalists.”

Full read here.