I have seen the future of newspapers and it is the Huffington Post. We live our lives online now and through sports, entertainment and politics. We don’t want the read any more, we want the action on video and in pictures and from the horse’s mouth, not the mouths of reporters assessing the truth.

The Huffington Post is a virtual product with very few staffers that gathers material from a number of sources. Hundreds of writers contribute to the Huff Post and they apparently do it for free. What a coup!

What Adrianna Huffington has done for newspapers is to prove newspapers have developed a format we like and content we like, it’s just that we like it more dramatic, more opinionated, with more nudity. Instead of reading late night jokes, we get to see them. They post Celebes in see-through shirts, panties, shirtless, topless and on camera saying ridiculous things. It’s real life as we now imagine it: live, on camera,  all the time. The rest of the time it’s news we get from faces and names we recognize.

I love reading Maureen Dowd in the New York Times twice a week but I look forward to the day when her column is available on Huff Post, not just the words, but some video too and maybe a clip of her and Sarah Palin pulling hair. You know it will happen!

The days of inky paper being dropped off on curbs or delivered to front doors or into mail boxes is not over but those days are numbered. It will be sad for those of us who have winter fires to start, but we’ll cope. As long as the lights on are, we’ll have all we can handle right here online and in living, breathing, heaving color. Hu hah!