HP Puts Trump Campaign in Entertainment

[Tumah]

The Huffington Post has decided to move the Donald campaign from the Political section, to the Entertainment section.

After watching and listening to Donald Trump since he announced his candidacy for president, we have decided we won't report on Trump's campaign as part of The Huffington Post's political coverage. Instead, we will cover his campaign as part of our Entertainment section. Our reason is simple: Trump's campaign is a sideshow. We won't take the bait. If you are interested in what The Donald has to say, you'll find it next to our stories on the Kardashians and The Bachelorette.

Regardless of whether you think the Don is off his rocker or not, do you think this is what a newspaper should be doing?

 

[Flankerl]

Something is wrong if you call the HuffPo an actual newspaper.

 

[Revoltingest]

The Huffington Post has decided to move the Donald campaign from the Political section, to the Entertainment section.
Regardless of whether you think the Don is off his rocker or not, do you think this is what a newspaper should be doing?

Trump doesn't strike me as serious about running for president.
Huff Po seems to be doing this for their own political reasons.

 

[metis]

I don't agree with that move as I don't consider Trump to be "entertaining". To me, "nauseating" is a better term for him, but I can add a few other descriptors as well.

 

[Marisa]

People still read HP?

 

[Revoltingest]

People still read HP?

Things from there pop up on The Drudge Report.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Regardless of whether you think the Don is off his rocker or not, do you think this is what a newspaper should be doing?

No.

 

[Marisa]

Things from there pop up on The Drudge Report.

There's another one I don't read.

 

[Revoltingest]

There's another one I don't read.

I like internet news aggregators because I don't do TV or radio news.
Drudge's format is dense with titles to linked articles in a friendly format....which is very old school & amateurish.
And it has a wide variety of news, often being the first to break major stories.

 

[YmirGF]

Does anyone actually care what the Puff Ho does anymore?

 

[Revoltingest]

Does anyone actually care what the Puff Ho does anymore?

I find it useful if I want to link an article when lefties would challenge anything smelling of a rightish agenda.
I've never seen'm dispute Huff Po.

 

[Nietzsche]

I find it useful if I want to link an article when lefties would challenge anything smelling of a rightish agenda.
I've never seen'm dispute Huff Po.

Mm, it's a situation where if the loons at HP are talking about it, there must be something to it. But anyone with even a modicum of respect for basic journalism will use the BBC. **** American news, left & right.

 

[Revoltingest]

Mm, it's a situation where if the loons at HP are talking about it, there must be something to it. But anyone with even a modicum of respect for basic journalism will use the BBC. **** American news, left & right.

Never trust a single source.
And if the BBC had its way, things like the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal would've never erupted.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Considering HP (I saw the OP title and thought Hewlett Packard) isn't news but rather a blog it's their call. And even though Trump is probably not serious and doing nothing more than keeping his name in the spotlight, it would be wrong of any news source to do such a thing.

 

[leibowde84]

The Huffington Post has decided to move the Donald campaign from the Political section, to the Entertainment section.


Regardless of whether you think the Don is off his rocker or not, do you think this is what a newspaper should be doing?

More power to them, as they are free to do what they want with their own paper. And, there is something to be said for the fact that Trump's candidacy is a side-show. After the McCain ordeal, I'm not sure whether he is going to do anything but harm to the Republican party.

 

[Tumah]

More power to them, as they are free to do what they want with their own paper. And, there is something to be said for the fact that Trump's candidacy is a side-show. After the McCain ordeal, I'm not sure whether he is going to do anything but harm to the Republican party.

I'm not denying that Trump is running a circus.
I just think that this is too much of an explicit bias against a candidate for a news source that wants to be taken as fair and unbiased to have. Op=eds are one thing, this is totaly different.

 

[Nietzsche]

Never trust a single source.
And if the BBC had its way, things like the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal would've never erupted.

No one is perfect. But the BBC is far & away a superior news source. Mostly because they still do reporting rather than thinly-veiled opinion pieces.

 

[leibowde84]

I'm not denying that Trump is running a circus.
I just think that this is too much of an explicit bias against a candidate for a news source that wants to be taken as fair and unbiased to have. Op=eds are one thing, this is totaly different.

I don't know. They guy is doing real damage in his campaign, and he doesn't have a shot at the national election. It seems pretty clear that Trump knows this and that he is just trying to get attention. So, maybe that's their angle.

 

[Tumah]

No one is perfect. But the BBC is far & away a superior news source. Mostly because they still do reporting rather than thinly-veiled opinion pieces.

*cough* as long as it doesn't involve Israel *cough*
Did... someone say something?

 

[gsa]

I'm not denying that Trump is running a circus.
I just think that this is too much of an explicit bias against a candidate for a news source that wants to be taken as fair and unbiased to have. Op=eds are one thing, this is totaly different.

I don't think that Huffington Post even attempts to conceal their bias. HuffPo, Breitbart, The Blaze, Fox News and MSNBC all now have fairly openly partisan and ideological aims. The way that news is produced and consumed has just changed.