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Hack List No. 7: The Huffington Post

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:30:00 +0000

This year, my annual list of the worst of political media highlights not just individuals, but the institutions that enable those individuals. The 2012 Hack List will be counting down the 10 media outlets that are hurting America over the next two days -- stay tuned! (Previous Hack List entries here, here and here.)

Arianna Huffington is brilliant. Her intellect is usually ignored by her detractors, who focus on her relentless ambition. Old-fashioned sexism taints so many pieces critical of Huffington that one sometimes feels a strong urge to defend her from the charge that she's cannibalizing and destroying American journalism.

Arianna touts her unpaid massage parlor

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:30:00 +0000

Hey, Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington was on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" this morning! Arianna and Joe and Mika talked about the "What Is Working" panel I attended earlier this endless week -- the one where Tom Brokaw and John Kasich and some random rich foundation people solved unemployment forever.

HuffPo donates $40K to yoga group; doesn’t pay masseuses

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 22:35:00 +0000

Earlier today I wrote about the Huffington Post's Oasis, where convention journalists can relax and enjoy free yoga classes, massages, facials, health food and more. The yoga instructors and massage therapists are "volunteers," which is to say unpaid.

A Huffington Post rep told me that the makeup artists are paid by the makeup company Fresh. "Off the Mat," the "evangelical" yoga organization, handled the yoga instructors and masseuses, who are all volunteers.

In addition, Huffington Post donated $40,000 to Off the Mat, so not paying the masseuses wasn't a cost-saving measure. To my mind that makes it worse, frankly -- $40,000 to some group dedicated to healing the world through stretching, nothing for people doing actual work at HuffPo's Oasis.

Here's Off the Mat's mission statement: