Arianna appeared on "Conan" Wednesday night to discuss a wide array of topics, including jeggings, divorced people stripping, and the current state of Internet news.
When host Conan O'Brien asked her why HuffPost doesn't charge its readers to see content, she replied, "People don't like paying for news and opinion...unless it's financial stuff or very, very weird porn."
Watch the interview and a behind-the-scenes Q&A below:
Every time I hear you speak - regardless of the topic - I am increasingly impressed. You are not only so intelligent, but wise, funny and progressive. Great combo. Carrying those three Blackberries has served you well!
I'm honored to be a writer for your new divorce section.
Thank you for paving the way to a better future!
Susan Pease Gadoua
reception for the press by cutting in front of hundreds of other reporter waiting to greet the Prez and First Lady. Remember, standing in lines is for little people.
As far as the comment about the comment on the government treating saving and creating jobs as seriously as they did about saving Wall St. I believe it is more a matter of what the government understands they can do and how things work in the economy. With Wall St. they and investors were a beneficiary of bolstering/saving the banks and financial system itself from crashing further. Wall St. is very good about capitalizing and they did. Deals that were struck had loopholes that could make any of us insensed and angry but if the flow of credit wasn't insured things would have gotten worse and Wall St. would have survived and capitalized in some way.
As for jobs and the middle class we need to wake up and work with business to do what is necessary to grow and develop future jobs. The dot com bubble, housing bubble, etc are realities and we can't just expect business to constantly expand without contraction. The middle class is getting squeezed badly here and we do need to compete in a more wold wide manner for our middle class to prosper. We didn't used to have to compete with Europe, Brazil,Asia to this degree and now we all do.
Best thing I've ever heard her say.