Huffington Post wants to be more like a newspaper -- Why?!

As newspapers nearly everywhere fret over the threat that bloggers pose to their very existence, one of the best and best-known blogs out there has decided she wants to have more in common with traditional media. The Huffington Post, which sports 43 full-time employees and another 1,800 bloggers, has decided that it wants to become an "all-inclusive digital newspaper," according to the Editors Weblog. Best-known as a left-leaning political blog, co-founder Arianna Huffington wants to make it more balanced, and has even suggested she would like have someone like Karl Rove join the staff.

The Huffington Post could give traditional news sites a run for their money because it links to contents from numerous other sites. It's status as a sort of news 'zine allows it to provide readers with a sort of "best of the web" news coverage -- a one stop-source for everything (some readers think) they need to read.

It remains to be seen whether The Huffington Post will be able to make the crossover into becoming a more "fair and balanced" media outlet. The founder, after all, has a history of switching sides as it suits the prevailing political winds.

And we all love our media "fair and balanced," don't we? We all turn to Fox News (News Corp. NYSE: NWS) as a place to watch right-wing whack jobs spouting their demagoguery, but no one would ever take it seriously as a source of information. Right? Right?!