How reliable is The Huffington Post?
- The Huffington Post is launched in 2005 as an Online magazine in the United States and in many countries there is a spin-off. Editor-in-chief, Lydia Polgreen, who has previously worked at the prestigious New York Times. In 2012, the Huffington Post even received the coveted Pulitzer prize for the article series "Beyond the Battlefield" about wounded veterans.
- The principle of Huffpost: Everyone can post, an editorial examines the contributions and puts them online. So many opinions, comments, trip reports, but also classic messages to land-article on the website of the Huffington Post. In addition, an editorial Board creates editorial messages.
- In this way, especially politicians, bloggers, freelance journalists, book authors, and published a frequent contributor at Huffpost. A classic news Medium, the Huffington Post is no longer. It brings together a lot more different (sometimes controversial) opinions and encourages them to Discuss. Of whom the sometimes provocative article, it is always on.
Huffington Post seriously? (Screenshot CHIP)
Huffington Post: this is Why some doubt the seriousness
When a news page is frivolous, it can be difficult to determine. Because seriousness is highly subjective. Here we give an insight into the arguments for and against the seriousness of the Huffpost article:
- The Huffpost contains a lot of opinion posts that are provocative. They often contain sensational Headlines in order to bring the opinion of the author on the point. But frivolous? These articles are clearly marked as comment. In the Text itself, there are also often links to editorial News, consider the issue from an objective point of view.
- Large images and Headlines, similar to the Bild newspaper, many people feel as untrustworthy. The seriousness is not to say this but.
- A lot of article in the Huffington Post spin to great emotion, inspiring, and weird stories. But this is not a new one, because the have made other Newspapers and platforms before - from the süddeutsche Zeitung and the TIME until the IMAGE and the Frankfurter Rundschau. What is new is the fact that the title and the Videos have been optimized for Smartphones.
- More arguments are stated and refuted Stephan Weichert, in an article for the industry service YouTube.
- The German branch of the Huffpost is working with FOCUS Online together. In Germany, the number 1 of the news sites and heard how CHIP Online to the publisher Burda forward. So get yourself a picture "http://www.huffingtonpost.de/". If you have questions, you can reach the Huffington Post "community@huffingtonpost.de".
Huffington Post (Screenshot CHIP)
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