Yeah, I think we should do away with Huffington Post. The bunch of sexist assholes. What have they ever done for the progressive movement?!


Wow, talk about the stereotypical Progressives' Circular Firing Squad.

If we in the left spent half as much time improving the world and fighting our actual enemies in corporate and conservative America as we do trying to be holier-than and more-righteous-than and more-PC-than the progressive next to us, our country would be fixed by now.

How about concentrating your friendly fire on a more significant and useful target?

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Half the articles are about the deaths of Ted Kennedy and Dominick Dunne. Two old white guys, who a bunch of other old white guys, many of whom were their friends, are writing about.

It's like saying there were too many black guys writing about the death of Dr. King.

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As the editor of AlterNet, I strongly feel one of the key factors in making our content progressive is to have a diversity of voices including gender, race, sexual orientation, and age. When I see a partner like the Huffington Post, whose work I admire, have a front page that includes 18 bloggers that are all white men, and most over 50 years old, I get upset.

I'm the person who saw this line up first and made note. And yes, I am in that demographic -- white, male, and over 50. But the truth is, I'm getting gipped by not reading the other voices who have different things to write and in different ways. We are deprived, not fulfilled with the same old, same old.

I'm tired of reading mostly white men pontificate on everything. I'm not going to stop reading my brothers, of course not. But Huff Po and every other site that doesn't make an effort to do a better job of getting more voices, is doing us all a disservice. We require for example a minimum of two female writers every day on the front page of AlterNet. Sometimes you have to work a little harder. And to Su Generis,
Tana's previous post is not engaging in a" progressive firing squad. ' Au contraire. I simply want us all to do better, and at AlterNet we always can do better as well.

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I'm white, 60 and I don't see color and I certainly don't approve of ageism. So why is that going on here? Who knows, next week they may staff with aliens from Mars, but if they can write and they are who qualified for the job at the time, will we discriminate here again?

Today is not the end of the world contrary to popular belief...

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So they go one day without including a women, a minority of this country, or someone under 50 and we start crying conspiracy?

I mean come on. Maybe they felt these were the most important posts of the day. Is this about affirmative action or reporting important stories? SO let them decide what they think are the most important stories to push to the front page maybe tomorrow it will be all women or all martians. WOuld you be complaining then?

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I go to the Huffington Post website (as well As AlterNet's site) several times a day. Huffington rarely keeps exactly the same page for very long. I've noticed that much of the material posted on the site changes according to changes in the news, including the position of the daily blogs. It seems to me that the combination of the tragic passing of both Dominic Dunne and Senator Kennedy had more to do with the particular posting described in this article. Nevertheless, I like the fact whoever wrote this article noticed this. This is what I like about AlterNet!

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Bad taste, inappropriate slam-dunk of women and minorities, what idiot let this be published?

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... not sex or age or race or the other qualifiers. In my opinion.

Of course, the choice is up to the editor of Alternet, as it should be in a free society.

Still, though, being picked as one of the required two token women writers-of-the-day at AlterNet must be sort of demeaning for those writers.

Regular Alternet readers now have to look at a female byline and wonder, is she here because her story was one of the best available to Alternet today.... or because the editor has a policy of filling an artificial quota of women?

That's the downside of "affirmative action"... and it is a downside.

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Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting had an article about Huffpo gender problem last year.

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3647

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Here they go again perpetuating a white male stereotype: all talk and bluster with no action - and total boobs in the house and garden. I'm sick of being a meaningless stereotype. We have a financial crisis - caused by government - and who do the blame first: us white guys. What about all the female suicide bombers in the Middle East? What about all those wives in the Mormon cult? What about Michael Jackson? White guys haven't started all the problems but that doesn't stop the media from the stereotyping.

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Though I like diversity for its own sake, what is written is actually more important to me no matter who the author is. However, HuffPo is guilty on a regular basis of gatekeeping, particularly in regards to submissions dealing with Israel. It is frustrating to get challenged on some point and then reply with citations to support my own assertions, and not have them ever see the light of day.

Nothing like stacking the deck there, HuffPo!

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Complete with Guiness, Jamison, music, dancing and flirty fun, then PLANT THE GUY.
OK, he was a senator, maybe even a GOOD one, but he was just a man, and would probably be disgusted with all this obsequy.
Let's bury him and move on; there are a lot of important things, regarding the survival of our nation to do.

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Arianna really should think about this…

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I like AlterNet in general, but the PC holier than thou tone of this article is a little much. HuffPo's editorials change all the time and are a mix of many commentators. So it was a bunch of white guys one moment, so what? There's nothing wrong with being a white guy, I am one. I am also a very liberal white guy who likes diversity, but it almost sounds like you think HuffPo should have a quota system for contributors... Give 'em a break! I think they stand for a lot of the progressive views that AlterNet does.

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It is sooo funny to look at postings like this. You simply counted the number of white males and went off like a sky rocket because - they were white males. Not because they said anything you disliked. It is what makes "progressives" so hilariously regressive. In your world you are living the very anthesis of Dr. Martin Luther Kings objective - you see skin color as the most important qualifier. The only difference is that now non-white and non-male posts get preference. It is more important that we have articles from a representative sampling than what those articles propose.

You folks are sooo simple minded and rule bound. You can't hear anymore - you just shout down anything that doesn't fit into the race/gender/preference models you believe are to be maintained.

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