'Occupy Wall Street' Backer Huffington Decamps to Paris, Announces Le Huffington Post Venture
While "Occupy Wall Street" is spreading to "more than a thousand countries," a key liberal supporter of the movement has been enjoying the past few days in the birthplace of the radical French Revolution, where she's expanding... her media empire.
Arianna Huffington is in Paris today announcing Le Huffington Post, a French-language version of The Huffington Post set to launch later this year in partnership with Le Monde:
PARIS -- Bonjour from Paris! It's 3 a.m. Tuesday morning here. This has been a really exciting day. Every time I come to Paris -- starting with my first trip outside Greece when I was 11 -- I love every minute here. But this trip was special, as I'm here to announce the upcoming launch of Le Huffington Post, in partnership with Le Monde and French media powerhouse Les Nouvelles Editions Indépendantes (LNEI).
The new site, which will of course be in French, will be up and running by the end of the year, combining HuffPost's signature mix of news, blogging, community, and social engagement with our partners' unmatched local expertise. Le Huffington Post will be deeply rooted in French culture and run by French journalists. It will, like France itself, have a very distinct personality -- its own way of approaching the world.
And to make that happen, we couldn't have found better partners. Though it's certainly venerable, Le Monde is actually not that old. It was founded in 1944, at the request of Charles de Gaulle, to be an independent and truly French voice that would take the place of Le Temps, which had been irreparably tainted during the German occupation. Le Monde's founding editor was the legendary Hubert Beuve-Méry, who was famously feisty, independent, incorruptible and pessimistic (for which some might say there's a pretty high bar in France). ''He was upright, exacting and constant," said President François Mitterrand when Beuve-Méry passed away in 1989. "He never betrayed himself." He was also legendary for being a fierce thorn in the side of those in power. "Journalism is contact and distance," he wrote. "Both are necessary. Sometimes there is too much contact, and not enough distance. Sometimes it's the opposite. A difficult equilibrium."
"A difficult equilibrium." Kind of like backing anti-capitalist protesters while benefiting wildly from free-market enterprise?
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France is a fitting place for her and the wall street protestors
Submitted by boscokraft on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 1:33pm.
France has laws resticting anyone from working past age 65 (unless you are a lawyer, politician or physician)
All businesses close down from 1200-2:00 PM
All stores and businesses closed on Sundays
Micromanagement of all phases of the economy
If that is what you want, move there. You dont deserve the freedoms that our Fathers and grandfathers paid for with their blood. GET OUT and stay out.
LETS JUST HOPE
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 1:40pm.
she stays there. Of course she is a Millionaire so she is probably there hiding her money in France, that way she can declare she is poor to the stinky hippies trying to over throw our government.
Oui, Oui, Mon Sewer!!!
Submitted by bigdaddy on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 1:41pm.
...which is a fitting place for the "Huff-n-puff Post"...
How appropriate
Submitted by c5then on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 1:43pm.
Of course the title must be changed to" La Post du Huffington.
I fully expect their offices to be on the Rive Gauche
I can't wait for all the articles and blog posts on how there is not enough cake for the poor oppressed citizens to eat and that the evil Corporations are to blame for that...
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
It is hard to imagine a more
Submitted by jdhawk on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 2:04pm.
It is hard to imagine a more toxic merger than Huff n' Puff and AOL. After all, since that merger in February 2011, AOL's stock has tanked from over 24 dollars to13 dollars today.
Le Monde must be out of their mind to think a similar consequence won't befall them with a Huff n' Puff partnership.
On the other hand, Arrianna, is nothing if she isn't an opportunists. Perhaps, she see the eventual bankruptcy of AOL and is hedging her bets with the Le Monde deal.
Meanwhile, don't be fooled by her high statements about Le Monde. It is as far left as she and her bunch are.
Hell, if things go the way they have been in Europe, in genral, and France, in particular (French banks have hundreds of billions of PIIGS' debt), there won't be much left of France let alone Le Monde and their toxic socialist ideas.
So Zsa Zsa is off to Paris...
Submitted by drsamherman on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 2:09pm.
...and you can bet she ain't flying economy class....
She's off to spread the word about evil corporations (after her multimillion dollar deal with AOL) and to support workers (after playing "goldmine" with her former writers--she got the gold--they got the shaft) and to advocate for reduced fossil fuel consumption (by jet). Real example of honesty and integrity, isn't she?
You mean there's ANOTHER
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 2:23pm.
You mean there's ANOTHER gazillionaire 'supporting' these anti-gazillionaire stinky dirty brain-washed (or brain dead) maggots, who are in more of a need for Irish Spring than Arab Spring??? These 'anarchists who are calling for MORE government?? These P & S Party types (you can guess what those letters stand for, based on what they are doing to the areas where they are camped out)??? Who woulda thunk???
Le Huffington Post...
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 4:38pm.
from Le Douche Bag.
I have been to Europe, but not to France
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 9:02pm.
But everybody I know that has been to Paris says it's a giant sewer.
I guess it just got stinkier.
-Dave
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