Another Huffington Post Writer Exits

Author and media theorist Douglas Rushkoff says he won’t be writing for The Huffington Post now that it’s been acquired by AOL.

He was never one of Huffington’s paid writers, instead choosing to write for free because of “the sense was always that we were writing for Arianna – contributing to an empire that spent its winnings bussing people to watch Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert do their thing in Washington. Yes, there are compensating benefits – like getting links or hits or book sales – but it was a very soft quid pro quo based in a sense of shared purpose, and participation in a community beyond the mega-media-corporate sphere of influence.”

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