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The mainstream media is so full of right wing and
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centrist news coverage that many of us who
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desire social change take to the internet to find
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out what's happening in the world
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The Huffington Post a so called progressive
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liberal newsblogs that you may have heard of
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was founded in 2005 by Arianna Huffington
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she wanted to create a liberal counterpoint to
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right wing sites such as the Drudge Report
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I'm all for liberal and progressive news blogs but
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the problem with HuffPo is they are continually
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throwing women under the bus
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the website is dripping with sexism
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Progressive politics includes issues around
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racism and sexism, class, disability and
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sexuality. According to Alexa.com the Huffington
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Post is the 36th most viewed site in the US
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It beats out the Wall Street Journal and the LA
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Times. In order to entice viewers they use a tactic
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called Link baiting. It's any content within a
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website design specifically to gain attention.
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Linkbaiting is an internet marketing strategy that
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bring in viewers which then
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generates more ad revenue. In this case they
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regularly show women's nipples, cleavage and
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asses in order to entice views, and they even
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have a section called Celebrity Skin because
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apparently they aren't shy at all about their
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objectification. And let's be clear now
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objectification isn't just showing women's bodies
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it's using women's bodies to sell something
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so in this case they're selling "real" news stories
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but they are bringing people in by talking about
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celebrity nipples and which female politician is
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hotter. They often have images of half naked
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women right next to the "legitimate" news stories
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Or they will feature a popular news story like the
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one about the proposed mosque in New York City
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but they will use a nearly full screen image of a
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woman's body stratling a stripper pole
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This is fundamentally an issue about racism in
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America yet they're using a woman's body to
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gain attention. Since it's a powerful image to use
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as linkbait, they used it repeatedly on the site
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over and over and over and over again
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This would of course bother me in general
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but I'm specifically pissed off at this site because
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they claim to be liberal and progressive
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when they are clearly not when it comes to
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women. They have categories like Obama, Sarah
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