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Erica Jong: Huffington’s Fear of Paying

 “Artists who turncoat and exploit other artists—I have no words.”

Leslie Savan

June 22, 2012

Here’s Erica Jong on Arianna Huffington’s not paying her legions of blogger/writers: “Artists who turncoat and exploit other artists—I have no words.” The interview’s on a new media site, The Slant, “a forum for the subjects of high-profile stories to respond to media coverage on them that they think is biased, one-dimensional or incomplete in some way.” (Lower down, Noah Michelson, who edits HuffPo’s Gay Voices, defends Arianna.)

Leslie SavanLeslie Savan, author of Slam Dunks and No-Brainers and The Sponsored Life, writes for The Nation about media and politics.


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