{"id":187881,"date":"2011-02-08T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/08\/aol-buys-huffpo\/"},"modified":"2011-02-08T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T01:56:00","slug":"aol-buys-huffpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/08\/aol-buys-huffpo\/","title":{"rendered":"AOL Buys HuffPo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/07\/business\/media\/07aol.html\">$315 million dollars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think that this explains why they have been moving to a paid writing staff lately.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the celebrities who have contributed non-remunerated articles to the <i>Huffington Post<\/i> may be less inclined to do so now that it is part of the AOL empire, if just because the whole &#8220;cool factor&#8221; is much diminished.  (See the term &#8220;AOLamer&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Huffington will stay in charge of her web site, as well as taking over supervision AOL&#8217;s media operations, things like Techcrunch and its hyper-local news operations.<\/p>\n<p>I think that this will turn out better than the AOL\/Times Warner merger, but that&#8217;s a <b>very<\/b> low bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For $315 million dollars. I think that this explains why they have been moving to a paid writing staff lately. Many of the celebrities who have contributed non-remunerated articles to the Huffington Post may be less inclined to do so now that it is part of the AOL empire, if just because the whole &#8220;cool &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,997,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-internet","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}