AOL/HuffPo vs. Murdoch: who will succeed?

  Ha! Once again dinosaur media (even if it is a decades old internet service provider rather than a newspaper) has completely misunderstood the business model of offering news. Presumably when this AOL investment goes belly up, taxpayers will be expected to bail out its sorry behind.
  HuffPo is known very well for its left leaning tendencies. Chronicled here, some of the stuff written by unpaid writers is pretty nauseating.
  Huffington apparently does not intend to pay her writers in this new endeavor, just as most of HuffPo's writers are unpaid now. Quite a business model. Yes, that's sharing the wealth, as our president recently encouraged all businesses. Create more jobs that don't pay a salary. 
  Let's be honest. AOL has the worst business model and customer service, parallel only to XM radio. You're lucky if your bill is right every month and you're also lucky if you can actually cancel your subscription without having to cancel your credit card to get rid of them.
  Hot Air:

HuffPo certainly comes to the job with a well-known bias.  No one expects “balanced” analysis or commentary at the flagship website.  As Drudge and Townhall and Hot Air are known to be right-wing, HuffPo is known to be left.  And HuffPo isn’t left in the way, say, Slate or The Atlantic’s online site is, with a certain circumspection and mellow human maturity.  It’s the kind of site a lot of its readership will age out of, because of its essential humorlessness, its unrelentingadhan to indignation, and its chronic lack of perspective.  It looks precisely as partisan and cranky to the right as Rush Limbaugh’s website looks to the left.

  Once again, Murdoch is ahead of the game and has the new media figured out with the publication of his Daily , reasonably priced iPad newspaper, a gorgeous way to receive the news .  While there are some complaints that it is buggy, who knows if those complaints are sabotage from the left, who aren't above doing anything out of hatred for Murdoch.
  Peter Yarend at Webtrends says exactly the opposite and makes exactly the opposite point, a habit that is not unusual for biased commenters who want their side to win so much they cannot see the facts.
  We'll see.
  The iPad is a delicious toy, appreciated by the very young and older; teenagers don't "get" its use. Once in your hands, you won't want to let it go.
  And The Daily looks like a Harry Potter newspaper come to life.
  The truth is that the people who read the likes of HuffPo (the really partisan stuff) aren't going to like anything that the right does and vice versa.
  The money's on Murdoch though.