A lawsuit has been filed against the famous news and blogging website, The Huffington Post, but the co-founder of the website, Arianna Huffington, has tagged this lawsuits filing to be "utterly without merit." The website is being sued for not paying for the blogposts of the bloggers, and now the lawsuit demands huge sum of money in return of the six years of non-payment to the private bloggers.
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| Co-Founder of Huffington Post, Arianna |
It was only few months before when Huffington actually sold her famous website, The Huffington Post, to AOL for the purchase price of total $315 million. She has a stance claiming that innumerable bloggers themselves willingly provide their news and opinions voluntarily to be put on the website with full consent. Whereas the website gladly just accepts the job and allows this access for free hence giving the writers full-scale direct exposure using their platform.
The lawsuit is driven by a self employed writer, Jonathan Tasini, as he completed the file work in opposition to The Huffington Post on Tuesday. The lawsut demands for a total of $105 million worth of money in compensation for all the unpaid writers, whose articles have been published so far in the six years. This money figure has been calculated considering the amount of money that the website actually benefited out of these articles of its ‘volunteer writers’ and how much did they earn for the website. Tasini has assumed to be representing the side of 9,000 and above such writers in the lawsuit.
According to an original official blog post of Huffington, which was posted on Wednesday, this lawsuit has been tagged by her to be "utterly without merit" as she claims to be "hesitant to take any time away from aggregating adorable kitten videos to respond."
Interesting reference has been made towards the kitten videos which actually intended to be a taunt towards Bill Keller, the executive editor of The New York Times. Keller has previously once called Huffington to be the "queen of aggregation" and labeled that the real appeal for the audience of her website are really the "adorable kitten videos" displayed ion it.
Whereas, Huffington went on saying in her blog that "We are proud of the impact it has had as a platform that amplifies the voices of those who contribute to it, and enables a wide variety of people to reach larger audiences with their ideas, opinions, passions, books, movies, causes and candidacies. According to her the "Bottom line: the vast majority of our bloggers are thrilled to contribute -- and we're thrilled to have them," she went on bragging that "Indeed, we are inundated with requests from people who want to use our platform."
Huffington also took the liberty of pointing out that it were not only th eunpaid bloggers who contribute to The Huffington Post. She gladly reported that "We also employ a newsroom staffed by hundreds of full-time editors, writers and reporters." Whatever be said, whether it is injustice to publish the articles without paying the writers, in any case The Huffington Post still is able to draw almost 25 million visitors every month and still remains a huge platform for any news to foster.
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