Since its inception, the Huffington Post's business model has been one based on providing decent political reporting and serving as a liberal news aggregate of content assembled from around the internet.
But in addition to its main news page, it has also built its success on the idea that it will let just about anyone write for them as long as they're willing to do it for free. ...
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