The once-antiwar Arianna Huffington told me to write no more for her site. Still, I must say this speech, against Rupert Murdoch and all the other copyright-addled barons of the old media, is excellent. Here is just one paragraph of hilarious Ruperisms against not only the giants, but LRC too:
So now sites that aggregate the news have become, in the words of Rupert Murdoch and his team, “parasites,” “content kleptomaniacs,” “vampires,” “tech tapeworms in the intestines of the Internets,” and, of course, thieves who “steal all our copyright.”
I am told that a very expensive web analysis lists HuffPo as #1 among political sites, and LRC as #10. And read the talk. I don’t agree with all of it, but it does demolish what’s left of the dying MSM.
UPDATE: Here is the Rupester’s talk at the same event, convened by the chairman of the FTC, Jon Leibowitz, with an obvious agenda of more state control.
2:40 pm on December 1, 2009
