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Someone once told me that the Huffington Post is a great place to go for left-leaning people that want to have their own preconceived thoughts verified without being challenged, but not a good source of information for the unbiased. I used to want to give Huff Po the benefit of the doubt, but after today I seem to agree with that sentiment. In an article posted to their site they posted some statistics that have been previously shot down by other news organizations (and I don't mean fringe news outlets). I, along with a few other posters, linked and quoted The Slate, Washington Post, Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Within about 2 hours all of our comments had been removed.


None of our comments had violated their terms of use. It wasn't even the links that did it, as opposing views were allowed to keep their posts with links active. I guess Huffington Post didn't appreciate it when I pointed out a Washington Post fact checker giving their information 3 Pinocchios.

I realize the Huffington Post is far from the only news outlet that does this. I also know that there are other places even more biased (in one way or another). My main two problems are places like these masquerading as "news" sites instead of glorified editorials or opinion blogs. I also have a problem with their apparent crackdown on decent from their opinion. Say what you will, but allow others to call you out on it.

 cuda1179 wrote:
Someone once told me that the Huffington Post is a great place to go for left-leaning people that want to have their own preconceived thoughts verified without being challenged, but not a good source of information for the unbiased. I used to want to give Huff Po the benefit of the doubt, but after today I seem to agree with that sentiment. In an article posted to their site they posted some statistics that have been previously shot down by other news organizations (and I don't mean fringe news outlets). I, along with a few other posters, linked and quoted The Slate, Washington Post, Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Within about 2 hours all of our comments had been removed.


None of our comments had violated their terms of use. It wasn't even the links that did it, as opposing views were allowed to keep their posts with links active. I guess Huffington Post didn't appreciate it when I pointed out a Washington Post fact checker giving their information 3 Pinocchios.

I realize the Huffington Post is far from the only news outlet that does this. I also know that there are other places even more biased (in one way or another). My main two problems are places like these masquerading as "news" sites instead of glorified editorials or opinion blogs. I also have a problem with their apparent crackdown on decent from their opinion. Say what you will, but allow others to call you out on it.

Unfortunately this is fairly common practise in some form or another. Also, as far as I'm aware, the US doesn't have any guidelines relating to what can call themselves press/media outlet, which any site on the web could class themselves as a media outlet or news agency. I also suspect that the US would have trouble putting such definitions in place because your constitution (I think that's the right document) guarantees the freedom of the press, I'm sure there would be an argument to be made for defining what the press would encroach on this.

Yeah, HuffPo is gak, and has always been gak. I used to call it the liberal Breightbart, but Beightbart had been appealing to literal neo-nazis lately, so I may need a need a new item of reference.

....eh.... no one is forcing you to participate on HuffingPo... their site, their rules.

It's like the shadowbanning on Twitter of conservative personalities... I don't agree with it personally, but Twitter is a private company.

At some point, we need to realize that we're the consumer... and we can take our 'business' elsewhere.

Well said. That would seem to conclude this topic.