7 Reasons Tina Brown is Spanking Arianna Huffington’s Butt
January 28, 2009 by Craig Stoltz · 6 Comments
About six months into the adventure, Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast news-and-comment website is already far superior to Arianna Huffington’s fantastically popular supra-blog Huffington Post. Why, you ask?
1. The Daily Beast delivers less content than HuffPo. Web users need people smart enough to tell us what to ignore. These people are called “editors.”
2. DB views the world with a cocked eyebrow. HuffPo is wide-eyed. Skeptics are more interesting to spend time with than believers.
3. When you’re hungry, DB is a funky buffet line. HuffPo is a food bank.
4. DB understands that politics exists within pop culture. HuffPo thinks pop culture is the sideshow to politics.
5. DB, despite its proprietor’s print heritage, understands that web users scan, dip and click. HuffPo, despite its web-native heritage, thinks web users “read articles.”
6. Daily Beast publishes some original work by accomplished professional writers who are paid for their work in U.S. dollars. HuffPo depends mostly on the generous contributions of people like you.
7. Daily Beast is easy on the eyes. HuffPo is a beast.
