I agree:

Misleading headlines in HUGE FONT!!!, headlines that don't accurately reflect the content of the articles are particularly problematic and troubling.

I just wonder: If sites like HuffPost and others are to be alternatives to the MSM, then if over 60% of the content are merely links to NYTimes, WaPo, WSJ and other articles, then I wonder what's the point???

The commentaries are more of what you might read on DailyKos and TPM, so again I wonder what's the point??

Finally, HuffPost has become almost unreadable not just because of its content, but it is also very, very difficult to bring up - even on a work computer.

I now use BBC and Christian Science Monitor for my "quick look" news, Salon, The Atlantic Monthly and Time for interesting, fairly rigorous commentary -and the NYTimes for other news.

I think the news of the death of newspapers may be premature.

I just have not seen anything in the blogging/HuffPost and (even) TPM, DailyKos model to cultivate a fairly informed electorate. But I do understand that part of my task is to separate out "mess" from really useful content.

I've just about decided that HuffPost has too much nonsense to bother to wait for it to come up in the morning.

I totally agree, but I still go there to read articles from a few of my favorite bloggers. TPM is still the first site that I go to everyday - but this site has had it's moments too.

/agree

Okay, I don't know HTML that well. I did something wrong because it looks like it didn't link.

It's here:

http://ramonasvoices.blogspot.com/2009/03/shades-of-dr-phil-pop-psych-at-huffpo.html

huff wont let me in anymore. I do not have enough RAM. believe it or not. I spent my first month on the net over there.

But there are so many other places to play, I just do not care.

It's funny, I never complained about them, but their trashy hyped style probably turned me off too, since I hardly go there anymore.

I check TPM often. People are just a lot smarter.
(Anyone else notice that HP message boards are awash in rightwing trolls! It's like 6-4 rightwingers, wtf!)

Huffington Post was my introduction to political blogging, but I quit going there sometime during the primaries. I, too, wrote a post about it at the time.

I have always found TPM to be more polished and the user community is mostly civil, unlike many other sites. Unlike the user above, I am glad it isn't "Rah Rah Obama" all the time.

If we are going to stand a chance in hell of getting the administration we elected then topical, pointed and consistent criticism is fully warranted. Saying he's only been in office for ex-days so can't be held accountable for the direction he is leading is not logical to me. The path he lays today is what allows for great things tomorrow. If that path is going astray, now is the time to say something and not in four years.

By then, criticism and activism will be much too late to make a difference.

Lately, the Cult is writing diaries against those progressive websites and individuals who refuse to praise Obama 24/7/365.

Thus, Krugman sucks, Greenwald sucks, Huffington Post sucks, Johnathan Turley sucks, and so on.

Who's next, Zachary Roth? Greg Sargent?

The list grows.

I was just thinking about this when I saw this post. I am not going on Huffpost any more! She just is trying to get more business her way, it's all about money. Just wait she will sell the website soon! It's worth a billion? maybe before the meltdown?

Huffingtonpost practices a rigorous policy of censoring posts critical of Huffington's financial patrons, whom it protects as members of the "extended Huffingtonpost family." And of course, posts which criticize Arianna herself, are never allowed.

I stopped going there on a routine basis because it takes so damn long for the page to load, and then after all that? Hardly worth the wait.

And I'm not a fan of celebrity bloggers, frankly. I really am not interested in Alec Baldwin's thoughts on anything.

But she's rich right? Never give up on the rich.

I've stopped viewing Huffington Post for the reasons others have stated -- misleading headlines, endless posts on Palin, Steele and movie celebrities.

I regularly read Jeralyn at Talkleft. She nice. However, one of the other principal bloggers there (whom I don't read anymore) has turned me off with vitriolic diatribes against contrary posts.

TPM I always access.

Can we also get Rachel Maddow to stop talking to that lame, non-funny pop-culture dude at the end of her show???

Alec Baldwin is write: That writing sucks. Rachel's great b/c she's brilliant. Not a comedian. Bring out Josh Marshall for the last 5 minutes of each episode...

...TO RAKE REAL MUCK!

Not to mention that the scripts and whatnot they have running on their site often have my browser crawling on its knees.

I turned to HuffPost about a year ago now... I think immediately after the PA primary, as CNN was driving me to the brink of insanity at that point (I'd only recently had my political 'awakening', and being an expat, I needed to rely on the internet). For a long time, I found it was great- I became a regular poster, fought the good fight against the trolls, while avoiding being excessively venomous. I also posted a lot of opinions that sat poorly with the peanut gallery there, and caught a lot of abuse myself. It got me onto TPM, which is amazing, and other sites besides (although it was TPM that's sparked the other sites I still follow, such as 538 and Greg's new blog at whorunsgov) However, over time, Huffpost has become rather unpleasant. The headlines have nothing to do with the content at least half the time, they adopted the absurd flashing golbes on the sides of 'breaking, urgent news' ala Drudge. Even worse than that, the attacks from the 'left' (although I find these people who are representing themselves as such on HP don't actually know what they're talking about half the time). Its becoming frustrating, as the headlines have become sensationalist, and the quality of the comments have gone down (my favorite commenters there spend most of their time defending themselves from both sides now). As a result, I don't find myself commenting that much anymore.

Its a shame

I usually read TPM and John Cole's Balloon Juice. I cherry pick what I read at Kos because some of the diaries can be more informative than the articles. I think I'm too pragmatic for HuffPost because I didn't expect great things out of Obama and decided very early that I had more things I liked about him than I didn't like. What I have no patience for is when people complain that he's not left enough and if they'd done their research, they'd have seen that he was never to the left. He's always been a compassionate centrist. I may be naive but I take the voting process very seriously and research what someone's views are before I make the decision to vote for them. Otherwise I'm not voting FOR them, I'm voting AGAINST the opponent.