The other day I was writing a story about a DJ in Buffalo New York who compared black women to burnt toast. I actually got the lead from Huffington Post. History: Arianna Huffington is the founder of Huffington Post.
It was sold to AOL for $315 million in 2011, In June 2015, Verizon Communications acquired AOL for $4.4 billion and the site became a part of Verizon Media. As of November 2020, Verizon Media sold Huffington Post to BuzzFeed and it is run by Jonah Peretti. This leaves me with one question, why do I still own Radio Facts (lol).
Reading the story of course wasn’t surprising considering shock jocks have died out with Rush Limbaugh and it’s now a pretty old and antiquated concept at this point. Desperate times require desperate measures when Clubhouse is the new hot spot go-to portal for 18 to 34s … But what I found more surprising was it was in the “Black Voices” section of Huffington Post …
Um, isn’t this a section that is supposed to be about … well … I don’t know …. yeah …. BLACK VOICES???
As in writers and perspectives perhaps from BLACK people? Hey, this was according to an editorial written by Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington in August of 2011 introducing the section as a guest speaker at the NABJ which stands for National Association of Black Journalists. The site was sold shortly thereafter to AOL so Arianna is off the hook but why did Verizon Media and/or BuzzFeed change this part of the site?
