for the Los Angeles Times, skewered Ms. Huffington for her decision, comparing her and Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL, to pillaging pirates. “To grasp its business model, though, you need to picture a galley rowed by slaves and commanded by pirates.” For Rutten, this a clear example of employee exploitation reminiscent of older economic models: “the fact is that AOL and the Huffington Post simply recapitulate in the new media many of the worst abuses of the old economy's industrial capitalism—the sweatshop, the speedup and piecework; huge profits for the owners; desperation, drudgery and exploittation for the workers." 

Guild Freelancers, a unit of the California Media Workers Guild, called on Arianna to “live up to your ideals” and share some of her profits from the sale wit...

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