'“It gets confusing when the New York Times starts launching a ton of blogs, and the Huffington Post starts offering news,” said Jonah Perretti, a 26-year-old MIT graduate who is the [Huffington Post's] resident tech whizz [Make that whiz.]. “Things start to blur.”

... Like a standard newspaper, Ms Huffington insists that her contributors maintain accuracy. All errors must be corrected within 24 hours, lest bloggers have their posting privileges withdrawn. Yet she argues that one of the blog’s strengths is an attitude and immediacy that distinguishes it from the mainstream media’s sometimes-tortured attempts at objectivity. “None of this ‘on the one hand, on the other hand’," she says. “You have to believe that there is a truth to be ferreted out.”'