THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor of The Huffington Post, has hit back at the group of bloggers filing a major lawsuit against her, saying the accusation that she treated them like “slaves” is “painfully unoriginal”.
EXTRACT: “It seems that AOL's purchase of HuffPost suddenly opened his eyes to the fact that we are a business. I guess he'd missed the ads that appeared on the same page as his blog posts the 216 times he decided, of his own free will, to post something on our site.”
She went on to compare free blogging to appearing for free on a TV show and said that blogging had changed media landscape forever.
“People blog on HuffPost for free for the same reason they go on cable TV shows every night for free: either because they are passionate about their ideas or because they have something to promote and want exposure to large and multiple audiences,” she argued.
“Our bloggers are repeatedly invited on TV to discuss their posts and have received everything from paid speech opportunities and book deals to a TV show…
“Bottom line: the vast majority of our bloggers are thrilled to contribute -- and we're thrilled to have them. Indeed, we are inundated with requests from people who want to use our platform. People are looking to join the party, not go home early. Read the whole article here, and comment » | Emma Barnett, Digital Media Editor | Thursday, April 14, 2011
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