Introducing HuffPost's Big News Pages: One Stop Shopping for Obamaniacs, Apple Junkies, Brangelina Freaks, and News Obsessives of Every Ilk

Are you an Obamaniac? Obsessed with all things John McCain? An Apple junkie? Fixated on Brangelina? Can't read enough about Sex or the Beijing Olympics? Do you want every detail coming out of Iraq, even if the mainstream media don't?

Then do we have a cool new feature for you! HuffPost's Big News Pages.

These pages allow us to gather together -- both from HuffPost and from around the Web -- all the best news and opinion on a hot topic and bring it to you in a compelling, easy-to-digest format.

Big News Pages feature the latest news stories, the most compelling HuffPost blog posts, links from Digg, Delicious, and Google Blogsearch, and real time Twitter conversations -- all about the topics you are most passionate about or want to know everything about. And you can join the conversation: all our Big News Pages have a comments thread you can use to make your voice heard.

So far, we have Big News Pages on over 75 subjects -- everything from Barack Obama to Fox News to Yahoo! to Amy Winehouse to Relationships to Religion -- and we'll be adding more and more topics as we go along. And we'd love for you to weigh in on any Big News Pages you'd like to see; just put your ideas in the comments section below and, if there is enough interest, we'll create a Big News Page on your topic.

And for those of you who have your own blogs, if you add a link to a Big News Page in one of your posts -- a great resource for the latest info on a given subject -- we'll link back to you in a "Sites Linking Here" box.

If the subject of a story on HuffPost has a Big News Page, you'll find a link to it in the same place you find our Quick Read and Comments links. And there are widgets linking to selected Big News Pages on every HuffPost page.

So give our Big News Pages a look and let us know what you think.

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Comments

[americanalien]

I love this website and adore Ms. Huffington. However, I am a bit disappointed with the new comment system. I don't feel as free as I once did in bashing the right wing lunatic fringe that have shredded our constitution and made us all less safe. However, I guess this is the price we'll all have to pay as HuffPost try to ascertain its mainstream credentials.

[Hufferton]

Ms. Huffington,

The headlines on your web newspaper are priceless and the wittiness of your staff and that of most of the posters to the comment sections is entertaining and insightful. Overall, your site is at the pinnacle of news coverage and commentary.

At one moment, I am angered and outraged at the ubiquitous governmental nonsense associated what I have read, while at the next moment I am outwardly laughing at the spot-on lampoons exposing the hypocrisy.

[MysticInd]

I would like a page on the Internet. All the developing stories of what's going on and who's trying to make it inclusive to just a few. (2nd time posted)

[sharonmacc]

Arianna,
Great idea, please keep the reports respectful. "Brangelina" is so National Enquirer. I thought Huff Post was above that kind of silliness.

[larose501]

Same sentiment , I respect the writing and contributors on the Huffington Post, I hope this spin off doesn't compromise the quality of reporting we're accustomed to.

[Propaghandi]

Great feature!

Would it be possible to subscribe to each of these individual Big News Pages via RSS?

For instance, I would love to have my main HuffPost RSS feed, a separate Obamaniac Big News Page RSS feed, another one for Apple, etc.

[Propaghandi]

Love the idea of the Big News Page.

What would be even better is a way to receive each of these specific and individual Big News Pages via RSS feed.

For instance, I would love to have my main RSS feed for the HuffPost, another RSS feed for the Obamaniac Big News Page, another RSS feed for the Apple Big News Page, etc.

Is that possible?

[Chris Rodda - Huffpost Blogger]

I'd love to see a "Separation of Church and State" page under the Politics heading, rather than church/state issues being lumped together with pieces about religion itself, as they are now on the "Religion" page under the Living heading.

[Hufferton]

I agree with Chris.

[zephyr1964]

Dear Arianna,

What a marvelous idea. Your site continues to prove the age of print media has come and gone. This concept will mature over time and become a major source of news for many people.

[basilbeast]

I love the variety of news and writers, and I visit nearly every day.

However, I wish your site functioned better. I'm on DSL, and God help those on just dial-up.

What I'm asking for is a simpler website. I'm not enough of a techie to comment in further detail, but I think it would be to your advantage to make things easiers for your readers new and old.

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[Promise]

I have dial up and usually have no problem getting into Huffpost.

[evasta]

Please include the subjects of overpopulation, carrying capacity, and peak oil. No "green" or "environmental" discussion is valid without including these.

[Hufferton]

Good points.

[Leaftones]

Siome of the categories (ok a lot of them) are too narrow in their scope to be useful for the long or mid-term.

For example instead of the flavour of the day celebunots...uhh celebrities, you should have a category that is called "Celebrity Vice"

That way additional broader categories can be brought in in all the sections. I can rationalize and create some for you if you like - I'd like to get paid for it though as writer/editor if possible.

for example "Religion Versus Science" or something like that - which is just off the top of my head, but I think you understand what I am getting at here.

Email me and let me know if you want assistance and if you could please email me all your categories you have now, any sort of demographic, marketing, ethical, future, audio, video, interactive etc concerns for these categories and their end use by both your readers and your editors and staff.

No worries, good idea to begin with, I think it can be better and not so reliant on stuff that may be past it's due date into categories that directly relate to the now now now but do not become stale in a week or month or two.

please email the address associated wit this user name if you would like more.

[CAPTAINSKIPPY]

Ms. Huffington, thank you so much for bringing us newsjunkies the news, formerly the job of newsprint organizations, and now online and paperless. My former newspaper is but the shell of a shadow of the newspaper it once was only a year ago. Now, its just a few usual ads, front page news is buried under trivial gossip in the mid-section, the sport section seems intact, but otherwise it is hardly worth the bother to open it to look at. Other journals are obviously struggling, and it is painful to watch journalism dying before our eyes. Again, thanks a bunch for acting wisely and when much needed!

[JimReed]

I would like to see a page to track what Dr. James Dobson is saying. I am collecting quotes and things to try to build evidence that might help me save my Christian friends and family that listen to him. Here is what I have so far.

He says Obama is distorting Christianity and teaching a fruitcake constitutional interpretation. I think this is a good reason to say Dobson is distorting God and teaching a fruitcake religion. The thinking is Dobson helped put Bush in power, and that led to preemptive war and rendition and torture, and so we can judge by the fruits.

He calls the California Judicial system "California lunacy" because of rulings on marriage and homeschooling. I think this is reason to call his way "Christian lunacy", basically the same reasoning as above.

As a side note, Dobson says he knows as a tax exempt religion he can't endorse candidates, but he points out he CAN promote his candidates and condemn others AFTER an election is over, just not before. He also pointed out he could condemn Obama because he has a whole range of publications, and the condemnation program was being sponsored by one of his subsidiaries that was secular and not tax exempt instead of one of his religious publications.

[ProgressivePatriotCA]

I suggest a page on "Peak Oil". As issues go, it's hard to find a bigger one. It is also an emerging issue that HuffPost will want to be ahead or the curve on.

[MadeInAmerica]

Put a link in the green bar after 23/6 so that we don't have to search for it please.