Monday, June 1, 2009
Allman Apoplectic
Posted by David Winkler-Schmit on Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Gambit editor Kevin Allman is about to explode. Turns out his favorite person to despise, “Satan's own Botoxed handmaiden” Arianna Huffington, is going to receive a lifetime achievement award from Syracuse University’s journalism school, Newhouse School of Public Communications.
Newhouse is bestowing the I-3 honor on Huffington because of her “impact, innovation and influence” in the field of journalism. Who else could have come up with the idea of not paying journalists, and even charging internists for the pleasure of writing for her? And when that doesn’t work, she copies off the kid sitting next to her, or all the kids sitting next to Huffington on the Internet.
Unlike Newhouse dean Lorraine Branham — who makes her living at a university, which is anything but free, and doesn’t have to worry about reporting for a living, or her job — not everyone is happy about the announcement.
We await Allman’s reasoned response.
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Simon Dumenco said it better than I could in his Ad Age article: Funny how the fact that The Huffington Post fails to pay most of its bloggers didn't come up when Newhouse Dean Lorraine Branham gushed about the blog mistress in a prepared statement: "Arianna Huffington was ahead of the curve with HuffPo. She embraced the use of new media but never forgot that no matter where or how you tell the story, content is still king. This is what we teach our students." Oh, give me a break! Content, in Arianna's world, is not king, and it never was. Link bait is king; opportunism is king. If content was really honored at The Huffington Post, the site wouldn't have gotten in trouble last December for lifting content wholesale from other sites that do pay for their own content. (In case you missed the scandal, HuffPo's Chicago outpost got caught red-handed stealing detailed, bylined capsule concert previews -- not just quoting them but copying them in their entirety -- from the likes of the Chicago Reader and Time Out Chicago. See "Arianna Huffington's Scuzzy Copying Pisses Off Chicagoans" on Gawker.) I've been raging about HuffPo's devaluation of content -- and, ergo, content creators -- since late 2007, when HuffPo co-founder Ken Lerer told USA Today the company had no plans to ever pay its bloggers: "That's not our financial model. We offer them visibility, promotion and distribution with a great company." The Newhouse people should be ashamed. Instead, I imagine they're hoping that Satan's Botoxed Handmaiden will teach them every exploitative trick she knows.
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Wait, I thought was Ann Coulter's title? Or perhaps they're all part of Satan's Botoxed Harem?
I hope Clancy has a tranquilizer gun handy for Kevin. Be gentle with him, y'all.
I'm not one for political correctness, but I feel like well-kept middle-aged women should be offended by the appellation "Botoxed Handmaiden." It's kind of funny, though.
A reasoned response on this from the editor of The Gambit? Surely y'all jest! Can we flood Syracuse's email box with protests and have Arianna go the way of Carlos Mencia?
That would be lovely ... but Carlos Mencia was just one man in a Mardi Gras parade. Arianna is the Undead.
Ooookay, so we're looking for some silver bullets, some crosses, and an extended day in the sun for Ms Huff. Seriously, though, some sort of edumacation of the Newhouse dean is definitely in order. It's folks like Arianna that are ensuring that students of Lorraine Branham's won't be padi a cent for their words.
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