Junk Science
As someone who is not a fan of The Huffington Post or so-called alternative medicine, I particularly liked this Salon article on how the site constantly publishes fringe medical quackery by unqualified, unpaid hacks.
posted by Matt Bors at
1:58 PM
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Crap medical advice from internet hacks? Well, you get what you pay for. For example, the set of Tintin books I er I mean my friend just ordered is much nicer than the copy I I mean my friend stole from the library at age 8.
Why are you not a fan of HuffPo? Health care quacks aside, what's the problem. I find many interesting posts there from the likes of David Sirota, Bob Cesca, Dan Solin, etc ...
Did you actually read the HuffPo piece in question? The readers castigated her thoroughly. Again, why does this make HuffPo bad? This is the equivalent to calling DailyKos racist because some clown posts a racist diary - which has happened.
People need to understand this new-fangled device called "the internets". Maybe you can use "the google" and find out about it.
Sometimes I doubt if The Huffington Post is not a deep cover conservative enterprise.
Anon--Wish you could sign your own name to your post.
HuffPo is a site built on a worse labor model than WalMart. They don't pay contributors, thanking "exposure" is enough for content providers while Huffington rakes in millions. They are nothing but a link farm--hardly any original content except for the celebrity blog posts.
They also post increasingly frivolous news stories and are obsessed with celebrities. I'd rather watch CNN.
I know there's a dislike by content providers of sites that don't pay for content. Understandable. Unfortunately, most content is moving to a new and permanent price point: free.
As for me, I find lots of good info on HuffPo and am intelligent enough to filter out the crap. No different than any other publication really. For instance, the WSJ has been known to have some of the best reporting in print news, but also has a bunch of hard right loonies that write the editorials. I can read the news, and ignore the op-eds.
Finally, on the entertainment. There's no more entertainment news on HuffPo than there is on CNN, MSNBC or any of the other so-called news organizations sites. Less, really. You don't have to read it, and it has its own section. That (again, unfortunately) is what brings eyeballs to HuffPo and gets the advertising dollars.
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