Arianna and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong sat down with Charlie Rose on Thursday to discuss the recent merger of The Huffington Post with AOL.
Arianna explained to Charlie her larger vision for the future of the company.
She said that "the key here is to remain passionate" and to base reporting "on storytelling rather than just repeating data." In terms of local stories, Arianna stated how important it is "to focus on solutions, rather than just problems."
Summing up the current divide between national and local issues, Arianna explained, "I actually really profoundly believe that at the national level people are losing trust," but that "at the local level, we have people actually finding solutions, using their compassion and ingenuity to help each other."
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What I originally liked about the Huffington Post is almost gone. It is not that it is bad, or changed, but the structure was clearer and the scope narrower, it knew what it was doing, and it stuck to that.
Now I see an effort to be all things to all people - and it is over-grasping, in the same way that the US Empire is trying to do too much ... IRONICALLY.
There are articles about everything from divorce to weight-loss to sports. So far I am very happy that there are no Rush Limbaughs and that it has retained its intellectual/progressive branding, but if it continues in the way it is going it is a mathematical certainty that it will.
I will be very unhappy to see HP lose its focus, and progressives to lose what is a good resource.
I have personal experience with this game, because I was once on Fox Business News Live to talk about my September 2008 HuffPost essay "Capitalism Is Dead: Now What Do We Do?"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-g-brant/capitalism-is-dead-now-wh_b_127016.html
The segment ran for 11 minutes; but because Cody Willard was on the show to debate me, I had a heck of a time getting the basic principles of my concept - that capitalism must be redesigned not repaired - across.
If the new HuffPost champions real solutions, it will perform a hugely important service for people throughout the world.
People are literally dying not because solutions to our problems don't exist, but because those solutions haven't been seen by a critical mass of society and, therefore, don't have the support needed to be implemented.
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/3892940/rebuilding-capitalism
In my opinion, presenting real solutions - and explaining the new thinking required to develop them - is the most important thing I journalist can do.
THE SECRET OF OZ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qIhDdST27g
ELLEN BROWN - WEB OF DEBT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU0XiklHPMc
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The fundamental principles of capitalism (especially scarcity of resources) are no longer true. We can get all the energy we need for free from the Sun. We just need to build the infrastructure to collect that energy. Works for plants; can work for us.
Just find something that needs to be improved on, and that interests you, and just pitch in and help.I I I have personally found that It is actually pretty energizing helping out a few hours a week.
A bi product of this non reporting is FOX. That is why middle America tunes into their propoganda network. They would rather watch a lie made interesting than the mind numbing dumb you down, never stretch your imagination mainstream and cable networks.
A smart electorate is a dangerous electorate.
Rose is about the buck though too, it's really hard ( maybe I could be wrong here ) to find his shows to watch free on the Internet or in a podcast. I love PBS because most of the shows there I can catch on a podcast if I miss, or want to watch again. I find little value in watching a show that I cannot back reference for a person's name, or a book, product or idea. Even 60 Minutes has got that idea down, and has an iPad app where you can access the show and an archive of old shows. Rose seems uninterested in doing that.
You nailed it, a smart electorate is to be feared, and the 60's proved that all our social programs and education for everyone was working, and immediately we started to see dumbing down and lots of illegal immigrants.