that it was a stupid idea to allow commercial and publicly-traded corporations to take over our Fourth Estate. They will always, always side with Big Corp.
As for Huffpost . . . this is just another glaring example of Big Corp's sneaky m.o. They've been doing this for decades: buying up news outlets (print, radio airwaves, broadcast news) that have actually been reporting the news, and using their hard-fought progressive reputation to spread propaganda. It's the ol' "bait 'n' switch".
Moneyed fascists (corporate heads and uber-wealthy business people like the Kochs) look for progressive media outlets and shows (think New York Post, 60 Minutes, and of course, HuffPost), and after these outlets have gained a well-known reputation for being progressive - which means, they report the issues truthfully - they are bought out with an "offer they can't refuse" and the slow infiltration of propaganda begins until all issues are reported in favor of the Republican Party (that is most corporate-friendly, most people-UNfriendly).
Who would've believed that, before Murdoch bought out the New York Post in 1976, the paper was consistently progressive, even liberal?
Time capsule:
The older readers in the audience may remember what the New York Post was like before Murdoch bought it in 1977.
It was the most consistently liberal newspaper in the city, but it also was a listless and unimaginative afternoon paper being published at a time when afternoon papers were dying fast.
http://www.monitor.net/monitor/9807a/copyright/murdochbias.html
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