Wall Street Journal: There is no disputing the buzz surrounding the Huffington Post. Speculation has begun that the online news site might fetch $1 billion in a sale. Its parent, AOL was itself just sold for $4.4 billion to Verizon, and many suspect HuffPost won’t stay around for long. AOL’s numbers reveal an operation with defensible digital revenue and growth. They also show a decade-old outfit with a knack for not making money. The 850-person operation so far hasn’t created sufficient margins to produce even an operating profit. According to one person familiar with its operations: “We couldn’t figure out how to get this thing to make money.”