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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Ariana and AOL--trouble in limousine-liberal paradise


Cable Game fave Jeff Bercovici takes a look at what's going on at AOL/Huffington Post now that Arianna Huffington has taken over.   And it's not good.  He quotes on ex-AOL-er: “Arianna’s a world-class politician, a world-class media maven and a genius at p.r., but she’s not an experienced manager.” 

Uh oh. 


And, of course, there are other similar stories:
So it seems certain,now, that Wall Street is going to start judging AOL's purchase of Huffpo.  In fact, take a look:

AOL stock was $20.60 on the day that the purchase was announced--at "H" in the chart above.  And AOL stock closed today at $19.24.