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Analyst's note:   I think you will find this posting an intriguing story about the AOL-Huffington deal -- a virtual advertising machine -- which has placed Arianna Huffington on the fast track to global media mogul status with patch.com... possibly with federal funding. This story is worthy of being watched. Progressive, new world order,  "capitalism" is a fascinating thing to watch.  Like I've said before, I really don't make this stuff up.

 

"[....] Patch's potential to tap local markets served her political ends. At the National Press Club, Arianna [Huffington] beamed:

 
“I was in love with Patch even before I became part of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group. And Patch is really about hyperlocal. We are now in almost 850 towns all across America. We launched 33 patches in primary states to be able to cover, even more obsessively, the 2012 election.”
 

[....] the network promises to be used as a political weapon by supporters of the “progressive” establishments in Washington, D.C. The Obama administration's go-to news source, The Huffington Post, is now positioning its front-line of defense.

 

[...]In a February 10, 2011 interview with Charlie Rose, Tim Armstrong marveled at the Patch platform:

 
“One of the unique things we're bringing to the table is, we are going to be the first digital content company that is going to connect on a global, national, and local basis. We will be the largest single affiliate network on the Internet space in the U.S. And that's powerful.”
 
Currently, there are “patches” in 22 states and the District of Columbia. Patch.com's “About” page defines Patch as a “community specific news and information platform dedicated to providing comprehensive and trusted local coverage for individual towns and communities.”
 
 
[....] In the National Press Club discussion on July 15th, Ms. Huffington defended her decision to not pay her contributing bloggers by claiming that content creation for the internet is a diversion equivalent to watching television, an act of self-expression, which “has now become for many people the new entertainment and a major source of fulfillment.” According to Arianna, in this age of crisis, it is a privilege and a duty to bear witness:
 

“Today, new media are arming tens of thousands of people around the world to bear witness to what is happening in their countries, to what is happening in their time. And, ultimately, bearing witness is the highest responsibility we have as journalists. Bearing witness is actually the highest responsibility we have as citizens.”

 

[....] Setting aside the national security implications of an information consumption study paid for by Russian or Iranian patsies, the natural profiteer of these studies is the hyperlocal Patch platform and the dozens of tech advertising firms under the direction of Ketchum's parent Omnicom – a group of companies led by one of the world's richest CEO's John Wren 

In the end, perhaps the most craven of the Armstrong-Huffington corruptions is the possibility of the U.S. Government subsidizing the activities of Patch and the Huffington Post. The recent Federal Trade Commission study, entitled “Potential Policy Recommendations to Support the Reinvention of Journalism” is tailor made for Patch and Huffington Post Media Group. In March of 2010, Patch.com set up a “Patch.org Foundation” according to the network's “About” page. The aim of the foundation was “...to improve the quality of life in underserved communities across the globe through access to trusted local news and information.” [....]"

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