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Citizen Huff
Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times

Becoming more publisher than columnist, Arianna Huffington calls
Huffington Post an "Internet newspaper."

By BRIAN STELTER
Published: March 31, 2008

"Ari Emanuel called me last night with an idea for a blog," Arianna
Huffington said last week as she sipped an iced coffee in the New York
offices of The Huffington Post last week.

In several ways, it was a classic Huffington statement, combining
Hollywood celebrity (Mr. Emanuel, the famous movie agent), national
politics (his idea was an essay on how Hillary Rodham Clinton learned,
in his words, "how to manipulate words to cover up her lies"), with an
imperfect grasp of new media terminology (she meant "post," not
"blog"). And of course, Ms. Huffington herself was at the center of
the whole episode.

When Ms. Huffington, the 57-year-old author and former conservative
pundit, announced her plans for The Huffington Post three years ago,
many critics dismissed the idea as a digital dinner party for her new
liberal friends. But it has grown in ways that few, except perhaps Ms.
Huffington herself, expected.

In February, The Huffington Post drew 3.7 million unique visitors,
according to Nielsen Online, for the first time beating out The Drudge
Report, the conservative tip *** with which The Post is often
compared. On Technorati, a blog search tool, The Huffington Post is
the second-most-linked-to blog, behind only the technology site
TechCrunch. As Roy Sekoff, the site's editor, said, "We've always
wanted to be part of the national conversation."

When Barack Obama made his first public remarks about his
controversial pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., he did so in a
post on the site. "It was immediately picked up everywhere," Ms.
Huffington recalled. "It helps to be bookmarked by the mainstream
media."

And The HuffPost, as it's known, has come to symbolize a certain
combination of entrepreneur and online commentator, creating a brand
and a business around Ms. Huffington. But she and her co-founder,
Kenneth Lerer, have broader aspirations. In the last 12 months, they
have introduced new content areas devoted to subjects like
entertainment and business, and they have three more -- international
news, sports and books -- coming soon.
[.....]

Did they drop an "h" from Lerer?

Terry Gross is having a discussion of liberation theology with
theologians from the U. Chicago Theology School and others in the
know about BHO's church.

INTERVIEWS
Black Liberation Theology, in its Founder's Words
Listen =>

James Cone: Black liberation theologian says the overriding message of Old
Testament prophets ? and Jesus Christ ? is "a condemnation of the nation and
of the religious [establishment] ... for oppressing the poor." Courtesy Union
Theological Seminary
 
Fresh Air from WHYY, March 31, 2008 · The Rev. James Cone is the founder of
black liberation theology. In an interview with Terry Gross, Cone explains
the movement, which has roots in 1960s civil-rights activism and draws
inspiration from both the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, as
"mainly a theology that sees God as concerned with the poor and the weak."
Cone also comments on controversial remarks made by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright,
Barack Obama's former minister and a black liberation theology proponent.
In a now-famous 2003 sermon, Wright charged that an ingrained, abiding racism
in American society is at fault for many of the troubles African-Americans
face, and he thundered, "No, no, no, not God bless America! God damn America
? that's in the Bible ? for killing innocent people."
Cone explains that at the core of black liberation theology is an effort ? in
a white-dominated society, in which black has been defined as evil ? to make
the gospel relevant to the life and struggles of American blacks, and to help
black people learn to love themselves. It's an attempt, he says "to teach
people how to be both unapologetically black and Christian at the same time."
Cone's books include Black Theology and Black Power, God of the Oppressed,
and Risks of Faith. He teaches at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary.

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