How Are You Going to Keep them Down on the CMS Once They’ve Seen Howard Fineman’s Paycheck?

Interesting discussion here from one former HuffPo writer on why she will no longer contribute. This graf, I thinks, points to a problem the site may have going forward:

The Huffington Post just took on Howard Fineman, a fine political pundit and maybe one of the last to leave the sinking ship Newsweek.  I predict he will stay about a year.  Maybe two.  He doesn’t want Newsweek to be the last thing on his resume.  He needs some “street cred” in new media.  Then he will go on to a university lectureship (Princeton, perhaps) or a think tank or a foundation in order to round out a prestigious career.  Likely both Fineman and Huffington are under no illusions about the hire.  But here’s the thing from my point of view.  So Fineman is getting a six-figure salary.  Deserved.  But why is there not a quarter of that for me? 

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    On especially good days, like this...tried to psych myself up to ignore what I knew about...
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  5. peterfeld said: Most likely because the non-name bloggers at HuffPo contribute little to the traffic; most get no pickup. It’s basically a vanity press (e.g., headshot, HP logo etc) for them. HuffPo traffic comes from home-page aggregation, not the unpaid bloggers.
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