Why Breitbart News Will Be the Closest Thing to a State-Owned Media Entity
by Mathew Ingram at Fortune
http://fortune.com/2016/11/15/breitbart-trump-media/
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And that has some worried about the site’s influence on U.S. policy and the media.
Steve Bannon doesn’t look like a media mastermind, or the head of an alleged cabal of right-wing racists. He wears cargo shorts and rumpled dress shirts, and likes to call people “dude.” But the chairman of Breitbart News how has an unprecedented amount of influence over the President-elect of the United States—and that has some people very worried.
Before Donald Trump became a contender for the Republican presidential nomination, most people had probably never even heard of Breitbart, the site Bannon took charge of in 2012. Others probably dismissed it as a haven for right-wing conspiracy theorists, like Alex Jones’ InfoWars.
Now, however, Bannon has been named chief strategist for the incoming president. And the rise of Trump, a candidate who Breitbart promoted unceasingly during the campaign, has lent a legitimacy to the site that the company is busy capitalizing on at breakneck speed. It recently announced plans to expand its operations both in the U.S. and in Europe.
A former Breitbart spokesman who left the company earlier this year said that the site “will be as close as we are ever going to have — hopefully — to a state-run media enterprise.”
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We had this in argentina. Not a good idea. https://twitter.com/mathewi/status/798264290830479364 …
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