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A writer for the popular Cinematical blog writes about being fired, as part of the overhaul of HuffPost-AOL combine. He explains the main reason why AOL bought Huff Post:

As it turns out, not paying people is what had attracted AOL to Huffington in the first place. “Tell us more about this ‘not paying people’ system,” AOL said, intrigued.

Huff Post's PR Company-in-news-disguise is open to all. People question how long will Huff Post continue to attract writers for free. But still, some continue to frame this story as 'The war against aggregators' or 'People resent Ariana'. For example, one commentator's response to the above article about a writer of a popular blog being fired is:

New genre flourishes: Arianna resentment porn.

See, some people just won't accept criticism of Ariana.

Let's call this, ' New Genre flourishes - Sucking up to Media Overlords such as Ariana Huffington'. Actually, it is old genre, quite popular in the old media arena. But, old media or new media, as far as power games are concerned, it the same thing in a new bottle.