Warren Beatty to Blog

Posted on April 6, 2005

In an article called, Bloggorhea, the New York Observer says movie star Warren Beatty will blog on Arianna Huffington's new webzine, the Huffington Report. "I probably will," Beatty told the Observer. Earlier this week we blogged about the Huffington Report, which will feature blogging from some top celebrity and media names including Tina Brown, Barry Diller, David Geffen and Gwyneth Paltrow. The Observer suggests that the launch is partly an attempt to counter the Drudge Report and Beatty agreed the Drudge Report has too much influence:

"I applaud the effort to tell the side of the story that Arianna Huffington seems to be engaged in," he said. Mr. Beatty was all too aware, he said, of the power Mr. Drudge has to steer the American media. "I would say he does a very industrious job of finding the things that he feels could be exploited to further the political agenda of the far right," said Mr. Beatty.

Gawker Media also launched a tabloid-style blog called Sploid to compete as well, but so ar it has no celebrity or major media names associated with it. About Sploid, Gawker's publisher Nick Denton, told the Observer, "We want to occupy the space between the whiny left and the ranting right." The Observer article does a good job of covering the upcoming Huffington webzine, Sploid and the influence of Drudge -- but it ignores obvious leading political weblogs and webzines, such as Raw Story, which bills itself as "a liberal alternative news counterpoint to the Drudge Report."

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