Arianna's New Site

Hollywood's version of Air America on talk radio. It should be called "The Huffington Puff," but it's trying to be a Real Clear Politics or The Drudge Report without any real reporting. Something tells me that the Huffington Post will just be another echo chamber, like The Daily Kos.

Drudge and Hugh Hewitt are pointing to this savaging by Nikki Finke. I don't know anything about Finke, but her piece makes her sound like a pit bull. I doubt that any conservative blogger could equal this fisking.

Huffington's biggest obstacle will probably be the same as Air America's, the liberal side of the media is overpopulated already. She's competing with a lot of established blogs and sites like MoveOn.org and Democrat Underground, and I doubt that people are going to be interested in Hollywood's own spin on issues, which we already get in spades from TV, music and movies. She's apparently got financial backing, though. So we'll see if money can make a blog and a profit.