LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
manifestation of this longing to
disconnect from the hurly-burly
of our hyper-connected lives and
join the slow news movement.
So here are some of this issue’s highlights: Katie Bindley
on the psychology behind online
romance scams; Michael Calderone on Politico’s growth since
its upstart days way back in the
2008 election; Sharon Carty on
the young designers, engineers
and scientists pumping new life
into Detroit’s auto industry; Peggy
Drexler on the risks and rewards
of raising children to believe
they’re all winners, all the time;
Gary Hart on the possible consequences — both legal and illegal
— of the Supreme Court’s Citizens
United decision; and Priyamvada
Natarajan, who asks “Can Science
Be Crowd-Sourced?”
There’s also Mike Hogan’s review of Beasts of the Southern
Wild (which won big at another
festival in Cannes), a Q&A with
Meghan McCain and a Greatest
Person of the Week feature on Dr.
Michael Good, a Marietta, Georgia, veterinarian who takes in stray
animals who would otherwise have
little chance of getting medical attention or being adopted.
HUFFINGTON
06.24.12
I’m delighted that Huffington’s
first issue entered the world last
week to great reviews. On the
morning Huffington launched, I
gave the commencement address
at the all-girls Nightingale School
in New York. I told the young
women in the graduating class
the story of HuffPost’s birth seven
years ago, and the
A world
negative reviews that
of too many
greeted its arrival.
choices and
You don’t have to
too little
buy into the negative
time is forcing
reviews, I told them.
us to decide
And just the same,
what we really
you can’t lean on the
value.”
positive ones.
So, here at Huffington, our goal is to keep learning, keep growing, and keep listening to you, our readers, about
what you want more and what you
want less of. And to stay true to
the qualities of storytelling, engagement, and community — the
kind of timeless qualities that,
I have a feeling, will continue to
resonate no matter how
our online lives change.
ARIANNA