What the HuffPo does not have, at least not yet, is a roster of contributors who can set agendas, conduct in-depth investigations, or break high-level news.
The News of the World phone hacking scandal, which cost the jobs of top level News Corporation (NWS) executives over the last 10 days, has lit a fire under the armchair and desktop activists in the media reform movement.
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BSkyB's share price fell throughout the day, falling to about 670p when News Corp put out its statement, well below the 700p level that News Corp offered for them in June 2010.
The PublicMind pollsters also connected knowledge-level to news source.
There is enough wiggle room in the accounting rules for banks not to be bound by this price level but the news from Merrill signals the likelihood of more fair-value losses to come.
Citing high-level sources, ABC News reported that agents are looking into charges of obstruction, intimidation and witness tampering.
But now, obviously, Twitter's gone to the whole next level with all the news coverage and all the celebrities who are starting to use it.
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"Obama's win in 2012, despite the important Democratic constituency of young voters not participating at a high level, is good news, " said Michael McDonald, a George Mason University professor who specializes in voter turnout.
There was also good news as the level of reported joblessness fell to 9.4%.
It hardly needs to be said that Ennis, a media executive who has held high-level jobs at IAC and News Corp.
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There is encouraging news on the level of U.S. preparedness.
Technically the stock had built a nice mid-level base even before the news, which is what prompted Marc Sperling to buy calls on Dell well before news hit the wires.
Mr. SHAPIRO: I mean, in the last month, with this incredible level of public interest and news, I think the most Pat's been out of town in a week has been two days.
Certainly members of the media were left wondering if their questions had actually been answered by the German, whose level of English, at news conferences, seemed to vary depending on how keen he was to respond.
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More research is being conducted on this subject, but what seems clear in any case is that a reduced level of BDNF is bad news for our brains, and chronic sugar consumption is one of the worst inhibitory culprits.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other top-level Bush administration officials scheduled a news conference for later Friday and a similar briefing was in Miami.
Shareholders of individual companies want good news at the micro level, in addition to the macro level, and this where things could get a bit more troublesome.
Adam Matthews, secretary of Globe, told BBC News that movements at national level were genuinely significant.
The purchase of the remaining BSkyB shares, he said, would give News Corporation "an unprecedented level of control over the UK media".
News of another top-level resignation surfaced Saturday, but that was swiftly denied.
For the past few years, a low level theme that occasionally pops into my news feed is the idea of greater Sino-Pakistani cooperation.
"One of the reasons we went with custom hardware design for all our silicon is that it allows us to build security at the silicon level, " he told the BBC News website.
To me this suggest that the market has already priced in a lot of good news and risen to a level from which there will be limited upside potential (and substantial downside risk) for several quarters.
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Some of these are, I'm sure, familiar to you, at least at some level, and some of them may be news to you.
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In a statement the Met said the latest referral was in connection with the "ongoing high level public interest" in the relationship between News of the World publisher News International and the Metropolitan Police.
"The report identifies news at local, regional and national level and children's programming as amongst the key priorities, " he said.
This is plainly horrible news, both on a purely human level, and for anyone who cares about tech, design, and Apple.
The news about Carrier IQ software has shown the level of information that can be garnered.
They included .bet, .islam, .gay and .news as alternatives to existing generic top-level domain (gTLD) names such as .com and .org.
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