Is it satire, or is it the Huffington Post?

The difference is often difficult to discern, but here's a real-world example.

Huffington Post:

Arianna has booted contributer Dr. Peter Rost: "Setting the Record Straight: On Trolls, Moles, and Dis-Invited Bloggers":

Dear HuffPost Readers, Commenters, and Bloggers,

Here's the bottom line on the issues raised by Peter Rost: We disabled his password for one reason and one reason only -- his refusal to act as part of our online community.

A little background: Peter Rost was initially invited to post about issues related to the pharmaceutical industry, his area of expertise -- but his posts increasingly became about his personal grudges and beefs or long, self-referential, diary-like entries about finding an injured bird in his front yard (complete with photos) or a blog post about his friend having an extramarital affair...

Satire:

Over six months ago, on December 12, 2005, I penned the entry "SIT-IN FOR MARC MARON OF AIR AMERICA RADIO" about "Melvin Duchovny" chaining himself to a desk at Huff and Blow headquarters and refusing to leave. "Ariadne Huffanan" subsequently blocked him from posting to her site.

(HuffAndBlow is, of course, a take-off on the HuffPost. The Duchovny character was invented before Rost began posting to HuffPost and - spoiler warning! - is a take-off on Air America co-founder, loony loose cannon, and HuffPost contributor Sheldon Drobny That's a picture of The Captain from Gilligan's Island next to his entries.)

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Bloggage · Thu, 06/22/2006 - 20:09 · · Importance: 1