TWD Friday 1st Thread/The Let's Get Right to the Point Thread #1 For 11/9/12: Just Be The Bigger Person Please
Huffington Post Live is on the verge of a future collapse with the awful decisions and downright obstinate nature it has to liberal people.
It continues to do the same stupid practices that make it a fragile product on the open and real Internet, adjectives the Internet will always be despite corporate, elitist, powerful sources trying to control it for their own good.
Their desire to edit out any comment is the top problem overall, especially non-cursing, non-threatening comments.
Here is just a few comments from that idiotic segment on "small market teams are getting shafted" in the NBA that were deemed not acceptable to take despite their really civil and placid nature:
1) Yeah, I'm saving all my harmless comments with no cussing that are getting deleted. And I will write a post.
2) And sadly, got people editing out comments.
And here's the segment, saved only by a few people who actually do cover sports:3) [Marc_Lamont_Hill], That's fine, but you are not a sports journalists, and you don't know how to fully cover the game. If you did, you wouldn't make stupid segments like this.
That is just an example of those comments deemed not acceptable or too controversial for them, because it makes their hosts, in particular terrific Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, look bad because he framed a sports segment incredibly wrong ("small markets" teams are not shafted by the NBA, they are shafted because they are in not a glamorous city).
Basically it was about another sports segment failure that Huff Post Live continues to struggle with because they have no person there who has a fundamental background in sports journalism. They really believe sports is the easiest thing to cover, and they just further show the fundamental basis of their realest problem: The fact that they don't have the best news people hosting the show and running proper, original segments instead of hack unoriginal segments.
Marc would not even take a comment from the comments section because I keep it a little too real for him, along with other people, with how just wrong he was. Marc is a great guy, but frankly, he is apart of just many smart people in this nation who struggle to just say, "I got it wrong."
They are really nice, wonderful people there at Huff Post Live. There really are. But frankly, thanks to their bosses Arianna Huffington and TV boss Roy Sekoff not recognizing or even thinking there is a problem, this will continue to persist until they own up to their constant ridiculous mistakes made every passing second they are on the air.
It is the editing out of civil but proper critical comments like those above on many occasions that are the prime example of why Huff Post Live is really no different from your standard CNN "mediocre, centrist journalism" show, allowing former Bloomberg aides, libertarians, Democratic aides, political science professors, wealthy sons and wealthy daughters of Republicans to masquerade as "the bests hosts" when they are not fundamentally skilled in the core journalism principle:
To expect the unexpected and to always acknowledge that you don't know everything.
And it's not a good sign when you see the key thing that allows you to have traffic, the comments section, not be pleased by the comment editing out:
If Huff Post Live wants to survive and really thrive, it must get some real journalists of quality in there, as well as not be fake and hide comments from knowledgeable people and especially liberals everywhere in the world.
It is as simple, and as real, as that.
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