This Time Trump is not at Fault
As a Contributor to the Huffington Post I was most disappointed but hardly surprised when the Liberal institution, with no input from Contributors, immediately suspended the Contributor Program.
This is blatant censorship and makes a mockery of freedom of speech and fair news coverage. Since most of the Contributors seem to be liberal oriented like the HuffPost, it seems cruel that in order to silence the dissent of a few independents and non-liberals the management abolished all Contributors.
Such censorship should be rewarded with reader outrage but liberals never seem to condemn their bedfellows so I guess this is just another case of media manipulation.
Here is the transmission from HuffPost with no public hearing, no Contributor input, and no reader notice. Notice it is effective immediately. It is a dark day for journalism and free speech in America and you cannot blame this on Trump.
HuffPost Blog Team
Jan 18 at 5:28 AM
January 18 5:28 am
Dear HuffPost Contributors,
When HuffPost launched in 2005, it
introduced a group blogging platform that revolutionized and democratized
online commentary. It allowed teachers, parents and protesters to share space
with celebrities, politicians and CEOs while trading ideas on the pressing
issues of the day. Over the years, more than 100,000 contributors have posted
on the site, with many of you posting from the start.
Today, with the proliferation of
social media and self-publishing platforms across the web, people have many
more opportunities to share their thoughts and opinions online. At the same
time, the quantity and volume of noise means truly being heard is harder than
ever. Those who are willing to shout the loudest often drown out new,
more-deserving voices. The same has proven to be true on our own platform.
It is with this in mind that we
have made the decision to close the contributors platform on our U.S. site.
Going forward, when you log in to the portal at
contributors.huffingtonpost.com, you’ll see that you are able to access your
previous drafts and published posts -- and unpublish those posts if you choose
to do so -- but you won’t be able to post anything new. We won’t be taking down
or making any changes to previously published content ourselves.
We’ll still be publishing
commentary on the site, we’ll just be doing it at much smaller scale,
collaborating with writers to share smart, original ideas and making sure
that we’re lifting up the voices that have been left out of the conversation
in the past. We hope to keep hearing from many of you in the future, and more
information about how to pitch us your ideas will be published on the site.
Thanks for being an integral part
of the HuffPost community. Your bold, thoughtful contributions to HuffPost's
contributor platform have helped to make us what we are today, and we are
so grateful and proud to have had you with us in this endeavor.
Sincerely,
The HuffPost Team
