![[illustration (link to home page): logo (dental floss box on squarish mango background)]](/wp-content/themes/beatrice/images/t-square.gif "link: transcendental floss home page")
![[photo (link to home page): Larrabee State Park, WA (landscape)]](/wp-content/themes/beatrice/images/masthead-2009_tea-garden.jpg "link: transcendental floss home page")
![[image: random tagline] title=](/wp-content/themes/beatrice/images/taglines-only/rotate.php)
![[button (internal link): transglobal floss]](/wp-content/themes/beatrice/images/transglobal-active.gif "Transcendental Floss Recommends")
Monday 
22 August 2005
The great sell-out continues
or, Lessons in hypocrisy–Part One
In two recent posts (Post 1 , Post 2), I ranted after finding out that two media sources I’ve held in high esteem were selling out to big business.
Time to add another to the growing list.
While I’ve jokingly written about Arianna Huffington’s The Huffington Post, in two older entries (Post 1, Post 2), I made it all up to her in this post, kissing her ass thoroughly, and even going so far as calling her, “…one of the greatest political minds out there.” At the same time, The Huffington Post has been an almost daily destination for me since it was launched. I’ve appreciated her commitment to taking stands in her contributions to the blog and in the selection of the news feeds, which occasionally rival BuzzFlash in their no-holds-barred mission to bring the Bush Administration’s shortcomings to light.
Imagine my surprise, then, arriving at the site last Friday morning and finding it loaded with advertisements*. The site was already a bit of a cluttered mess, given all the content they were trying to provide on the home page, but now it is an eyesore. Pigs at the trough indeed.
Yet the greatest irony of all can be seen in this screenshot. (Be sure that you scroll down so that you can see the ad in the lower right corner.)
Instant Karma?
It should be noted that I don’t have a problem with advertisements in general. Heck, we have Amazon ads here in the Floss Aid section of our right sidebar, and we’ll be adding Google Ads or a similar service in the future. No, the problem I have is the extreme she’s gone to. With a huge banner ad at the top, the large image ads just “above the fold” to the right, which follow you to the permalink pages, and finally the Google Ads at the bottom, it is simply excessive, and if I were her I’d be embarrassed given that I published a bestseller entitled Pigs at the Trough–How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption are Undermining America.
Up Next: Lessons in hypocrisy–Part Two
![[del.icio.us]](http://images.del.icio.us/static/img/delicious.small.gif){kind=small}
permalink
Update: Doesn’t it all come down to the corrupting power of money, the seduction of it all, how in a capitalist society money makes so many things easier, whether it’s running a radio network, magazine, website, or…running for office?
From CNN:
Link
permalink
Ads? What ads? Oh wait, Firefox ate my ads for me.
permalink
Nice one! If I could write like this I would be well chuffed. The more I read articles of such quality as this (which is rare), the more I think there could be a future for the Net. Keep it up, as it were.