AOL Buys "The Huffington Post"

George Soros and his sidekick, Arianna Huffington, have managed to expand their media reach even further. This doesn’t fall in the category of a Soros’ purchase of a media outlet; rather AOL has agreed to buy “The Huffington Post” for $315M. As part of the deal, Ms Huffington will be put in charge of AOL’s new division. AOL head-dude hopes that adding “The Huffington Post” and Ms Huffington will boost a lagging AOL. Read Ms Huffington’s article on the merger here. This merger will include several different sites from both AOL and HuFFPo, but one that I want to point out is the link to HuffPost Divorce. I point this out because neither sites offers a AOL-Marriage or a HuffPost-Marriage site. Leave it to a progressive site to have a section on making divorce easier, (offering advice on how to make a divorce less traumatic can be a good thing), but how about a corresponding site on how to avoid divorce?

This could be really interesting as it gives an already widely read progressive “news” source and even wider audience, perhaps even gaining a lot of traction overseas. Even more interesting is putting Huffington in charge of news content. Do you suppose they will sheath the fangs a bit and give the news a little more balanced coverage, say like not pounding on Palin quite so much or not trying to defend the goings-on at some of the Planned Parenthood clinics that was recently uncovered? I don’t think we should hold our breath.