Sorry, Dan Gillmor. Many who became journalists after 2000 are struggling to make a living. The HuffPo bloggers were routinely willing to write for free. That’s the value they put on their work. They don’t deserve a penny.

I think we should be a little less juicy in the jeans about what this marriage means and a little more skeptical about its prospects. Step one is that people should pay attention to Dr. Johnson’s dictate “Only a fool writes for nothing” and stop contributing to the H-post unless they get paid. She has the money now, after all. Second, I’m a little worried about what it means that Huffington will be the czarina of news at the new adventure. Does she have any idea what that means? At this point Huffpost seems to be an amalgam (and a wildly cluttered one at that) of wire copy and created content, much of which amounts to what one might call “breaking commentary.” We know she and her site have the chops and the style to be great liberal commentators, but no one really cares what anyone thinks about an event until they know what the event was. that’s what news does, puts the events of the world in order. the measure of the relationship will be how it meets that challenge. she should hire some hacks to help.