or at least i'm pretty sure that's the way that both bill keller editor of the new york times and arianna huffington of the huffington post feel about themselves has turned into quite the comical and snarky tit for tat but let me give you the play by play if you aren't up to speed bill keller released a column in the new york times have which praise how important and influential he is on this great planet of ours all according to forbes vanity fair and even woody allen but more importantly he expressed his distain for aggregators websites the repackage the work of other journalists and then take away revenues that quote might otherwise be directed to the originators of that material in somalia keller wrote that would be called piracy in the media sphere it's a respected business model and according to keller the queen of aggregation is of course arianna huffington whose website offers nothing more than celebrity gossip adorable kitten videos posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications i'm going to spare you from any more details but basically arianna defended her w

between watching him and talking to arianna huffington all night and kirk douglas, i didn't hear what>> jimmy: you were at the vanity fair party with arianna huffington, isn't she. >> crazy like a rich fox. >> jimmy: yeah. >> richer than you. >> jimmy: i know she is but still there's many people that are crazy that are richer than i am. >> why would you think she's crazy. >> i'll tell you why because she did something to me once a long time -- >> now we're getting to it. >> jimmy: that i've never told anyone before. i used to do "win ben stein's money." [ applause ] >> jimmy: and she was on the show and she was eliminated. i'm standing at the podium and she started squeezing my ass during the show. repeatedly squeezing it and i didn't know what to do. i turned bright red. i was like 12 years old or something at the time. and i go, this is a crazy person. who would do this? >> what did you do with your erection? >> jimmy: i always leave it in the dressing room. >> that's -- [ laughter ] >> that is certainly not the arianna i've known. >> jimmy: she never touched you. >> i'm going to ta

keller new york times calls this aggregation and he says quote the queen of aggregation is of course arianna huffington who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip adorable kitten videos post from one pig lagers a news reports from other publications he says you know people will come so you know on one hand we've got a look at the numbers here arianna huffington elise estimates there are estimates that she has seventy percent more unique page views than the new york times so what's going on here with this back and forth it's a lot more complicated than a battle of you know godzilla versus rudy and in the old japanese monster movies. it's not an ego thing it is a structural thing but it's also not as complicated or not complicated not as simple as old media versus new times as in first of all a lot into beefing up its online presence or area on the turns around and says well we have a lot more people coming to see you know the new war a lot more people go see a stupid romantic comedy. a really complex drama i mean there's no mystery there but the fact is the new york times is the sou

and past tenants had trampled on those rules and sharon and arianna won't have it. and they are helping to make a stretch of divisadero into a real destination and the expansion has my full support. president olague: thank you. any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner miguel? commissioner miguel: in the spirit of what we said in this morning's session on keeping things moving, anyone who is willing to take out a 20-year lease on a restaurant business in particular in this climate deserves applause. i would move to approve with tremendous vised conditions. >> -- with the revised conditions. >> second. >> commissioner antonini? commissioner antonini: i am not going to go on long, but i agree 100% and i have been there and i really like ragazza. it is wonderful. but you need more space. i understand that. and so i am very supportive. president olague: i am a renter in the neighborhood, not an owner, but have equally as much commitment to seeing things thrive in that neighborhood. i used to go to the restaurant that was there be

hundred are being from the us media operation so you could say that well that's just business of arianna huffington a woman who writes about the abandonment of the middle class in america as a more than just a little wrong some writers are now going on strike against the huffington post joining me from our studio in los angeles is bill last wrote the publisher and coeditor of visual art source bill thanks so much for joining us now if you could walk us through this story as to how you went from being ok with the huffington post unwilling to you know post material there without getting any profit from it to now wanting to strike against things in the post you know how did that happen was it the a.o.l. deal that really sealed it. in part last year when we were invited along with our writers my partner and i cater feller polled our writers and they indicated a willingness to we post our content that we publish and pay them for each week on the huffington post and exchange for the exposure that they would receive and after the sale to a a well some of our writers got in touch with us and exp

class say attending to those allergies is creating a rash of problems for their children. 6-year-old arianna a constant tlit, exposure to peanuts could kill her. a warning on the front door at her house reveals contact with any nuts could be fatal. but some parents at the girl's classmates say their kids are the victims. >> concerns we have are the rights for our children. we feel like they're being taken away all for one particular child. >> a snack out of the closet. no peanuts. >> reporter: 7-year-old jasmine is one of 32 classmates. her mother carrie says requiring all the kids wash their hands an rinse their mouths twice a day is an ordeal that unreasonably impacts the school day. how much time is being wasted washing hands in your mind? >> almost 30 minutes a day. >> reporter: in a week? >> 2 1/2 hours. >> reporter: you add it up over the school year? >> almost 80 hours. >> reporter: that to you is? a lot of time taken away from their education, a lot of time. >> reporter: school officials dispute it takes that much time. they say there's a routine. the kids wash their hands before ent

the question is arianna huffington got paid $300 million.'t npr one of the best brand names of business raise a huge amount of money running as a private company and run commercials. >> that's not who we are. we are public radio and our goal -- it's part of the very fabric of everything that we do that we are a noncommercial and not-for-profit. we do have corporate underwriting. i would be hard-pressed for anybody to listen to those 5-second, 7-second spots and think they're anything like you hear on commercial radio. would we love to have more revenue from philanthropists from listeners and corporations,, of course, we do. we work very hard to try to increase the revenue so that we can have more money to spend on our reporting. but the fact is we're not -- we have no plans and will not have any plans to become a commercial enterprise. that's not who we are. that's not what we're chartered. we're on the free part of the radio spectrum and it's really part of the tacit pact that we have with our listeners that we are not-for-profit, noncommer