WEB OF EVIL (& ENNUI): Net Neutrality Neutered

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Net Neutrality Neutered

by M. Bouffant at 21:58

Damnit. We'd been vaguely planning on producing/extruding some sarcasm to the effect of "What now, PuffHo buys TIME?" reacting to the final subsumption of Newsweek by The Daily Beast. But we didn't. In light of this breaking news pile, had we typed & manifested it last wk. or whenever, we'd now be hailed as an effin' genius, if not an oracle.

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times Mon, February 07, 2011 -- 12:05 AM ET
AOL to Buy The Huffington Post in $315 Million Deal

The Huffington Post, which began in 2005 with a meager $1 million investment and has grown into one of the most heavily visited news Web sites in the country, is being acquired by AOL in a deal that creates an unlikely pairing of two online media giants. The two companies completed the sale Sunday evening and were expected to announce the deal Monday morning. The deal will allow AOL to greatly expand its news gathering and original content creation, areas that its chief executive, Tim Armstrong, views as vital to reversing a decade-long decline.

Imagining the synergy: A minimum of three times the suck is expected from only two combined sources.

This of course means that parasites like Huffington (Newt's BFF, see?)

Two on the left: no idea. Then: Arianna, Newt, Callista, Barbara Walters.
GUNS NOT CAMERAS!!

& Andrew Breitbart will receive added millions, while the people who did the actual work, created the brand, yada fucking yada, have doubtless already been fired or laid off & will receive sweet fuck all for their efforts.

4 comments:

bjkeefe said...: You really think Breitbart will make millions off of this deal? Please say you're just being hyperbolic.

Also, I would like to read a week or two of his outraged squeaking about not making a red cent of the idea that was "stolen" from him.

I have to say, though, for a traditional fence-sitter like AOL, attaching itself to a big LIEbrul brand-name like HuffPo should be seen as a victory for us of Teh Left. Yes, in between the moonbattery, the space given to wingnuts, and the click-whoring emphasis of the site overall, HuffPo is not actually such a wonderful thing from the perspective of serious liberals. But still: most media outfits would be very nervous about the image of this acquisition. The RWNM is going to go right up to 11 on this one, count on it.; 07 February, 2011 23:46
M. Bouffant said...: Believe The Hype! Editor Admits:

We have no idea what BB's actual deal is. Could be anything, but expect whining or triumphalism.; 08 February, 2011 12:58
bjkeefe said...: I see by your later post that my fears were for naught. Also my wishes, sadly.

I didn't know he had "cashed out" when he left, back when. Wonder how much that was.; 12 February, 2011 19:33
M. Bouffant said...: Ad hominem Editor Adds:

We were relieved too. Sometimes the hysteria carries us away.

Our unfounded-in-fact-but-fun suspicion: He got more than he deserved when he did cash out, because they wanted him gone. Out of the office, out of their lives!; 14 February, 2011 18:35