Alec Baldwin Slams Huffpo: 'Not Journalism'

Apparently no one bothered to tell Alec Baldwin that the Huffington Post is now styling itself "the internet newspaper." The 30 Rock actor, who was one of the first celebrities to accept Arianna Huffington's invitation to blog for her, says he thinks websites like Huffpo occupy a different and less worthy level of the media ecosystem than The New York Times and the Washington Post:

Newspapers are about journalism. The internet, and sites like this, are about commentary. People sign on and give their opinion. But that is not journalism. That is commentary, internet style, whereby most people are not trained as journalists and the comments of many posters here are anonymous. You can piss on anyone you want, say anything you want, and so long as it is within the boundaries of HuffPo politesse, you are in.

Oh, and Baldwin also takes a swipe at the literacy of Huffpo's readers, many of whom were upset when he criticized MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow. "The reading comprehension here can be rather surprising at times," he writes.