Bill Keller, executive editor of the venerable New York Times, and Arianna Huffington, founder of brash newcomer The Huffington Post, exchanged blows on Thursday in a highly public spat.
Keller threw the first punch in a column for the Times magazine, calling Huffington the “queen of aggregation” in a dig at her site’s practice of frequently linking to news items produced by other media outlets.
Huffington, he wrote, “has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your website and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.”
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