releases so there are very important issues beyond the sale the sale provides an opportunity for miss huffington and her and her collaborators and a a well to do the right thing now bill lately we've seen a lot of mergers haven't posted a.o.l. are the only ones they see in the daily beast and newsweek do the same thing and you know compare that to the way that the huffington post started with just a few people with a one million dollar investment do you think that we'll still see new alternatives new huffington post popping up or is everything just becoming you know too much together in the hands of too few people these days. i'm a small independent art publisher i have no expertise in that area so i couldn't give you an informed answer but every when you look at the big media landscape and especially on the internet when it comes to blogs you know what's appealing me. there's a real problem i think that professional writers journalists have in this country the media overall really has had a dumbing down as so many commentators have indicated and what we were guarding our interest to be is to ca

expressed their dissatisfaction with that we took a closer look and in light of the position that miss huffington occupies as a spokesman for progressive causes you cited her current book which i've read myself and i'm favorably impressed with in terms of the sentiments of voices we felt that it was inconsistent with the standards that we represent in that we feel that she represents in what she's doing as against her own best interest as well as the interest of we are writers so how do you see if. you're hoping that nobody will notice or has publically sold out turn corporate so i can't speak for her but it's hypocritical and we need serious progressive voices in this country we publish an independent art website visual arts source along with our local digest arts scene and our limited the covers the western states visual art and our feeling is that we have to occupy a position of badly kading standards and living by them and when we see people in public positions such as herders occupy that position and not live up to the standards implicit in that position we find that very troubling we need f