Arianna Huffington Fires Back at Leonard Downie Jr.
The Huffington Post co-founder and editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington responded to comments made in a speech Wednesday night by Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of The Washington Post, when he said of news aggregators like HuffPost, “Though they purport to be a new form of journalism, these aggregators are primarily parasites living off journalism produced by others.”
In a column for guardian.co.uk, Huffington wrote:
Once again, some in the old media have decided that the best way to save if not journalism at least themselves is by pointing fingers and calling names.
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