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Revision as of 02:02, 25 July 2005 by Stevertigo (talk | contribs) (fx stuff up)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Huffington Post (often shortened to HuffPost) is a left-leaning political group weblog started by Arianna Huffington. It is notable because of its early success and prominence, as a dominantly leftist blog, and features friends of Huffington's from both liberal and conservative viewpoints.
In addition to regular, almost-daily columns by Huffington and a core group of contributors, the HuffPost has featured notable celebrity contributors from the journalism, business, and entertainment, as well as relative unknowns. Because of the prominence and access of its contributors, the HuffPost regularly publishes scoops of current news stories, otherwise providing links to selected prominent news stories —providing a left counterpoint to the link-heavy style of the The Drudge Report. Compated to other left blogs like expertise-heavy Znet or the long-established DailyKos, the HuffPost draws a balance between hard news commentary and celebrity opinion features.
The blog is considered "leftist," and primarily dominated by United States politics, but occasional "right-wing" views are featured. The general tenor of the blog has been strongly opposed to the continuing Iraq War.
Contributors
Celebrity bloggers include current or former politicians: Jerry Brown, John Conyers, Jon Corzine, Gary Hart, Ed Markey, Mike McCurry, Bill Press, and Joe Scarborough.
Prominent journalists & authors include, Peter Bart, Tina Brown, Marc Cooper, David Corn, Danielle Crittenden, Walter Cronkite, Harold Evans, Paul Feig, David Frum, Larry Gelbart, Christopher Hitchens, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Michael Isikoff, Simon Jenkins, David Kirby, Paul Krassner, Roger Lowenstein, Bill Maher, Norman Mailer, Irshad Manji, Dennis Prager, Roger L. Simon, Tom Tomorrow, Elizabeth Warren, Lizz Winstead, and Byron York.
Among the actors, directors and producers featured have been, Lawrence Bender, Bruce Cohen, John Cusack, Larry David, Ellen DeGeneres, Sandy Frank, Robert Greenwald, Brad Hall, Marshall Herskovitz, Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Christine Lahti, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David Mamet, Adam McKay, Mike Nichols, Rob Reiner, Tim Robbins, Haim Saban, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and Harry Shearer.
Business people featured include: Joan Blades, Christie Hefner, and Hilary Rosen.
Others include: James Boyce, Kristen Breitweiser, Stephen Elliott, Richard Dawkins, Al Franken, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Marty Kaplan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., David Rees, Josh Silver, Russell Simmons, David Sirota, Tavis Smiley, Andy Stern, Eugene Volokh, John Zogby Chelsea Peretti, Jay Rosen, Gene Stone, Gara LaMarche, Mark Joseph, Michelle Pilecki, Carl Pope, Sarah Stillman Alan Dershowitz Russell Shaw, Cenk Uygur, Hooman Majd, Ted Poe, Tom Watson, Jerry and Joe Long, Seth Greenland, Greg Gutfeld, Margaret Carlson, Thomas de Zengotita, Christopher Guest, Paul Rieckhoff, Jesse Kornbluth, Andrei Cherny, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Stephanie Sandberg, Joseph Nye, Richard Bradley, Jim Moore, Deepak Chopra, and George Lakoff.
Advance publicity claimed forthcoming articles from, Warren Beatty, Tony Blankley, Andrew Breitbart, Albert Brooks, Barry Diller, Nora Ephron, James Fallows, Tom Freston, David Geffen, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Vernon E. Jordan Jr., Michael Medved, Gwyneth Paltrow, Paul Reiser, Liev Schreiber, Jann Wenner, Mort Zuckerman, Ari Emanuel, Paul Goldberger, Alex Keyssar, Kenneth B. Lerer, David O. Russell, and and Jim Wiatt.
Criticism
Critics contend that Huffington was missing the point of a blog. Celebrities, they say, already have many venues through which to express their opinions.on May 9, 2005.