The Huffington Post Sinks to the Level of Fake Celebrity Boobs, Wins BuzzFlash's Media Putz Award
BUZZFLASH MEDIA PUTZ OF THE WEEK


The Huffington Post
For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America.
The Huffington Post has produced some fine progressive content, some of it being purely original, presented in an effort to inform and entertain. Which is all the more reason why we wonder why it needs to slither in depths well beneath its otherwise decent standards into the depths of sticky, gooey tarpits.
Three words: fake celebrity boobs.
Three more words: What The F---!
When you read a story on The Huffington Post, you get a running list of the top read stories on the site -- "Popular Stories on HuffPost." So you can't get the legitimate information you want without being tempted by this week's top story "Guess The Celebrity Breast Implants (PHOTOS)."
The "challenge" is simple: see a cropped picture, sans face, of fake breasts, complete with cleavage, and guess to which celebrity the fake breasts belong.
The "inspiration" for the story stems from the breast implants from the current reigning Miss California, Carrie Prejean. But instead of having a discussion about whether breast implants are truly necessary, and why the pageant felt it necessary to buy them for a contestant, we are "treated" to gratuitous photos.
And the photos, other than Prejean (and that's a stretch even for her situation), have no news value at all.
In the segment, the celebrities are identified with little more than their name. But occasionally, there is a brief explanation. For one of the pseudo-celebrities, "America's Next Top Model" winner Adrianne Curry, best known for being married to the guy who played Peter Brady on TV two generations ago, says she got implants to correct unevenness.
Now, if there was an informative statement that pointed out that most breasts naturally aren't exactly identical in size, then we would have learned something. But we couldn't even get that much from the exhibit.
The only possible good from this story is by showing how horrible they look, they might inspire young women to have second thoughts about having plastic surgery. But that isn't even a direct message from the photo essay, and it's not worth the journalistic price paid by running this piece.
And if you weren't sufficiently thrown off by that story, there is the natural follow-up, currently the #2 popular story on HuffPost: BETTER WETTER? Who's Hotter When Soaking Wet? (PHOTOS, POLL).
The Internet provides a challenge to draw in eyeballs to a site. Serious news outlets might joke that their numbers would go up if only they could run porn, side-by-side. But it's not a serious suggestion.
And the news industry certainly accepts the prospect of cheap images as long as there is a news angle. The Associated Press is one of many media outlets that has written or broadcast a story about how women are turning to being strippers in tough economic times. Of course, we need to see video footage inside a strip joint to amplify the story, but again, it has a "news angle" so it's "okay."
Even in that case, there never was a follow-up. For example, why women might be suffering worse in these economic times, or if men are suffering worse because they don't have these "opportunities," such as they are. But that would be more news than cheap attention.
But newsgathering organizations have to rely on credibility and legitimacy. Articles on fake celebrity boobs with no news value destroy both. As of this writing, this photo essay has received 1,158,595 views -- a lot of hits -- but at what price?
The Huffington Post has been portrayed as a progressive news Web site run by a woman, yet the site is filled with celebrity misogynist content, none more egregious than the fake celebrity breasts photo essay.
For resorting to cheap, tasteless, non-news value, sexually titillating exploits to get eyeballs to a legitimate news site, we hand out the BuzzFlash Media Putz of the Week award to The Huffington Post, an outlet that should know be a model of progressiveness, not slithering in the gutter of a teasing tabloid.
BUZZFLASH MEDIA PUTZ OF THE WEEK
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The further shores of politics...
Oh, geezus keyrist, at first I was amused with the above "Media Putz of The Week" piece. But the newly posted anti-misogyny rant at Feminist Peace Network, "Liberal Porn," (see BuzzFlash.com home Web page) is waaaaaaaaaay over the top.
Look, first of all, The Huffington Post has been posting celebrity gossip since as long as I can remember. And it's never featured in the site's email updates...O.K. there was this piece yesterday Why It Matters that Adam Lambert (American Idol finalist) is (Probably) Gay, by Jay Michaelson, something I wasn't interested in, therefore didn't read.
As for the Feminist Peace Network's diatribe that the HuffPo piece, as cited by BuzzFlash.com, is anti-woman pornography, utter nonsense. And what better way to stoke the castration-anxiety fueled imaginations of reactionary male pinheads that all feminists are men-hating "feminazis."
But when the question of what constitutes the pornographic and how pornography effects society the further shores of politics converge upon themselves to form a mud puddle. Blue-nosed Puritanism is as strong and alive and well among the ideologically pure left as it is among the most reactionary circles of fundamentalist Christianity, Judaism and Islam. On this both Gloria Steinem and Phyllis Schlafy agree, pornography is destroying the moral fiber of America.
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Profitability and Queen Vicky aren't the point . . . .
While you're there...
Define trumping
Silly articles
Yes, HuffPost does sometimes have silly fluff articles. Of more concern to me is how incredibly hard it is to post comments there. I have logged in numerous times, and I get the "welcome" message, but every time I try to post, I get a request to log on before commenting. Maybe it's the server or something on my end, but it's not that way on any other site. In any case, it's true that readers don't have to click on anything that looks trivial.
Alternet (one of my other favorite sites) has a plethora of dumb dumb dumb articles concerning sex, dress, cultural trivia, and other non-news topics. I love it anyway. I don't have to read the ones I don't like on Alternet or on HuffPost.
Having said all that, BuzzFlash has a perfect right to point out the shallowness of making fake breasts a major topic, and I even agree. There's a lot in the world to be concerned with, and promoting celebrity breasts seems kind of silly.
TACKY PERHAPS..... maybe they should use LIBERAL TITS ! ! !
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Say What?
Wow, More Sour Grapes and Smears...
Tainted with Infotainment?
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Yeah, that's what I don't like about the HuffPo
But, y'know, every time I'm reading a serious piece on the administration, the economy, the war in Afghanistan or idiot Republicans and there's a celebrity boob story on the right side of the Web page...I always click the link.
BTW, thanks for linking onto the Guess The Celebrity Breast Implants story. Certainly an eye opener! I don't know who any of those so-called celebrities are, Jane Seymour, Paul Abdul excepted, but I learned a lot.
Can anybody tell me what the person, a tranny I think, named "Pam Anderson" is famous for?
Pam...
Don't click!
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Shut it down