Arianna On The 'Special Attitude' HuffPost Brings To Canada (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post   First Posted: 06/03/11 05:26 PM ET Updated: 08/03/11 06:12 AM ET

Arianna appeared on Canada AM this morning to talk about the launch of The Huffington Post Canada, now a week old, celebrating the “special attitude” that HuffPost Canada is giving to Canadians.

Before getting into the interview, host Seamus O'Regan told Arianna that “you just don’t stop.. you are a machine,” before asking about the Mitt Romney campaign, which Arianna called “well organized but lacking in the fire” that’s seen in Sarah Palin as she goes on tour.

In the interview, Arianna said HuffPost Canada will “bring the Canadian news and stories, not just to a Canadian but a global audience.” The site has a mixture of the stories HuffPost is known for, “low brow, high brow, what’s important and what’s fun.
“I'm feeling much more informed [about Canada] and so many others as well as bringing Canadian news directly to a Canadian audience.”

“We love our dot-cas,” O’Regan said.

See the interview here

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Arianna appeared on Canada AM this morning to talk about the launch of The Huffington Post Canada, now a week old, celebrating the “special attitude” that HuffPost Canada is giving to Canadians. ...
Arianna appeared on Canada AM this morning to talk about the launch of The Huffington Post Canada, now a week old, celebrating the “special attitude” that HuffPost Canada is giving to Canadians. ...
 
 
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09:48 AM on 06/06/2011
How about an expose on George Soros and all the various organizations that he supports. Now that would be educational for a great many people.
09:19 AM on 06/06/2011
Well it would be better if Huffington Post stopped Censoring Comments . How about Free Speech ?
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greysells2
grey cells matter
08:02 AM on 06/06/2011
Will the .ca site spell words the way Canadians spell them?
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greysells2
grey cells matter
07:45 AM on 06/06/2011
Rubbish, Ariana. The content of the Canadian site is primarily comprised of links to US stories with just a few stories to flesh out the offering and a prominant Canadian Maple Leaf on the masthead. You're treating Canadians like we are stupid. There is nothing uniquely Canadian about your offering. Additionally, the site is designed to "push" Canadian clicks for the sole purpose of generating ad revenue. Huffpo "reads" the url of the reader and, if that url is Canadian, you are presented "Canadian", meaning "canned" American, content. I should be able to see the news I choose to see without being directed by your site to where you want me to be. Your site is all about money and attempts to glorify the AOL/Huffpo actions as a brave act of Canadian Nationalism in journalism are silly. I agree with the developing concensus that the AOL merger has resulted in "dumbing down" Huffpo. I am really annoyed at being directed to the Canadian site and having to manually switch out to the American site. I want to choose where I get my American news and I want to choose where I get my Canadian news.
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AmigaMan
Your micro-bio will never meet our guidelines.
09:57 PM on 06/05/2011
This site has become so f***ing stupid IMO, especially since AOL took over.
12:51 AM on 06/05/2011
PART III

There is not a news item on your Canada page that actually captures the seriousness of the corruption that is taking root and the mortaging of a subprime future for Canadians. Your chewing gum for the screen is a time-waster and worse, a numbing and destructive charade, a travesty of journalistic purpose. Take a hike or take a look in the mirror and forget your ambition for riches you hadn't before your marriage and divorce and be objective, be a journalist and enlighten Canada or get out.
12:51 AM on 06/05/2011
PART II

It is a crying shame that you don't prefer to inform the public so that actual world- even survival-based NEWS can allow them to elect themselves in the knowledge that they have a handle on the issues that define whether democracy will be exterminated and its word only an emblem behind which your execs and their chums at AOL and in power with check books, and whether the planet will be respected, cleaned up, and that is not only nature, but the nature of the political system your marketing infotainment so dashingly and unfortunately not cleverly professes to critique and hold accountable.
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MyTake
Release the Hydrogen Economy now!
10:35 PM on 06/04/2011
"bring the Canadian news and stories, not just to a Canadian but a global audience".

Sorry, we don't need "news and stories" as PREPARED and FORCE FED to us daily by the CORPORATE control of the Media.

We want to know how just ONE powerful 4000 elite membership assembled at The Pratt House in NY, David Rockefeller, Chairman Emeritus, can control the political system in the U.S., Canada and Mexico and be PERFECTLY protected by the Corporate controlled media whose heads are embedded in that same membership base.

And we want to know why you are not promoting the release of the Hydrogen Economy which is being THWARTED by the Obama Administration which was staffed with over 350 names from that SINGLE Pratt House membership base?
05:29 PM on 06/04/2011
Arianna Congrats you've gathered all the Commies in one spot...................
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Jak Frost
In the future we will be anonymous for 15 minutes
07:29 PM on 06/04/2011
You say that as if it were a bad thing.
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temenos
castigat ridendo mores
01:48 AM on 06/05/2011
Don't forget to check under your bed every night; those Bolsheviks are everywhere...BOO!
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Jak Frost
In the future we will be anonymous for 15 minutes
02:32 PM on 06/04/2011
For those who have not yet figured it out, and there are a few on this thread alone, click on Front Page, you will see a choice between U.S. and CAN. Choose. At first I was pissed off too, my ISP makes HuffPo default to .ca but once the cookie is set in your computer, you have no problem jumping back and forth and to be honest big deal.

The intertubes is all about constant change folks, web surfing means dynamic flow and adapting.
If you can't handle it, browse elsewhere... at least until you get ticked off by that page too. Everyone needs to dial down the outrage, this was not done to you as a personal insult.
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rickthaluddite
What noisy cats are we
02:57 PM on 06/04/2011
It took me a while to figure it out-- if a luddite like me can do it, everyone else should be able. My initial problem was that I joined thru my facebook account. Once I disconnected that, I set it up so I connect directly to Huffpo. The only inconvenience (if it can be called that) is I have to login to the .com and .ca sites seperately if I want to comment.
06:49 PM on 06/04/2011
NOPE! does not work!. Page is undefined. Why should I have to do that anyway? It should be much easier than this! Why so difficult to just get to.com? Signing in is no help! Arrrrrrgh!
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Jak Frost
In the future we will be anonymous for 15 minutes
07:27 PM on 06/04/2011
Check your settings. It works for everyone else, so the computer you are using is blocking it.
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jon777or333
01:32 PM on 06/04/2011
A great addition - thanks, Arianna. Two for the price of one.
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Marcus047
given up on HP
10:20 AM on 06/04/2011
The "Special Attitude"they bring is neo-facism and control of what we read, see and hear, and who we talk to. Thanks HP, for keeping me from talking to all the american friends I've made here over the previous two years. Guess it's time to say goodbye, too bad you didn't give me a chance.
11:21 AM on 06/05/2011
The melding of American and Canadian news as if it is all one thing is just creepy. We are two distinct and different countries, and don't need Americans piggybacking onto us because their economy is toast. Canadians go to real Canadian sites for real Canadian news. Not being able to access HP.com is creepy as well.
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AmigaMan
Your micro-bio will never meet our guidelines.
09:10 PM on 06/05/2011
Prediction: We'll soon see the North American Union.
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JTCan
09:29 AM on 06/04/2011
Every since HP went AOL, I feel whoever writes the headlines has been misrepresenting the articles. I find it very discouraging how negative towards the Obama administration they have been. It's very subtle at times but in my opinion feeds the troll's spins.
Arianna has been doing that herself for a while now. She will be on a talk show, talking about something positive but will end with something negative, at times totally unrelated to the subject. It is as if she can't say something nice and leave it at that. She wants to shoot down anything that would look good for the Dems. The problem with that is people tend to only remember the last thing she talked about...thus the Obama Admin never gets credit for the really good thing they did.
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JTCan
10:02 AM on 06/04/2011
An example is the current headline that "Obama distances himself from the economy"...which is really an article about Obama praising the auto companies for the progress they have made ....a success of his bailout. It's no small issue in the state of Michigan. It's a huge positive sign for the whole state as well as Ohio,Indiana and Illinois.
12:17 AM on 06/04/2011
All Arianny desires is new advertising revenue streams. The rest is merely fluff.
11:50 PM on 06/03/2011
The entire history of HP has evolved with the bloggers and insight, wit and intelligence they bring.

Whether it from the US, Canada or elsewheres , the input of the non-paid will always dictate how the community shall be - especially on how those people are treated in kind.