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Originally Posted by nik-
I'm sure they'll have no problem getting contributers. I'm sure a regular entry on Huffington Post is good resume stuff for people still foolish enough to get into text journalism.
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Places like the Huffington Post - or Calgarypuck in a microcosm - provide an outlet for those who are willing to generate content for free because they feel strongly they have something relevant to say, or as a salve to their ego, and that in turn works well for those who wish to put up the capital/venue and carry the risk to attract readers.
In Huffington's circumstance, she would be overrun with content providers if the current patch decided to pull up the plug.
A variation of that would be writers providing content are paid on a per viewer basis which, obviously, rewards the shrill and controversial.
Both are business models being copied throughout the internets and in both cases, profit flows very narrowly to those providing the capital and venue.
Cowperson