The Huffington pest

Writing for no money is often paid instead with “exposure,” which is usually code for “nothing.” This situation became even more painfully evident when, earlier this year, AOL bought the Huffington Post—the popular news and opinion site run by (the super-rich) Arianna Huffington—for $315 million, and didn’t begin to pay (or back-pay) their freelance contributors. Today, it was announced that a former HuffPo blogger and activist named Jonathan Tasini (who, having won a

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