(Andrew Breitbart) The Right’s Blogger Provocateur (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

The New York Times ^ | June 26, 2011 | Jeremy W. Peters

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Andrew Breitbart wasn’t supposed to be sitting here in a television studio makeup chair. But when he heard that Anthony Weiner was about to announce his resignation, he dropped everything.

Mr. Breitbart, the conservative author and blogger who first published Mr. Weiner’s suggestive self-portraits, had ditched his book-signing in central Illinois and hopped on a flight earlier than planned to the Twin Cities, where he was booked as a marquee attraction at RightOnline, a conservative bloggers conference.

“To put myself in Decatur, Ill., without a satellite connection would have put me in a bad situation,” he explained as a woman applied a layer of foundation to his jowly face in preparation for his appearance on CNN. (He had just finished a phone interview with Fox News; Sean Hannity’s radio show would follow; then a quick break before sitting down with a documentary film crew.)

Part performance artist, part polemicist, Mr. Breitbart, 42, has used his network of Web sites and their legions of followers to bring conservative media red meat. Some of his reader-generated scoops have reverberated all the way to the halls of the United States Capitol, like the Weiner photos and undercover video he released of Acorn workers offering advice on how to evade taxes and conceal child prostitution. After the videos went viral Congress ended grants to Acorn, and federal agencies severed ties with the group.

The stories and videos Mr. Breitbart plays up on his Web sites — which include Big Government, Big Journalism and Big Hollywood — tend to act as political Rorschach tests. If you agree with him, you think what he does is citizen journalism. If you don’t, his work is little more than crowd-sourced political sabotage that freely distorts the facts.

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[gaijin]

The US media is as healthy as ever, there’s just one catch —it’ CHANGING HANDS.

1. To former gift-shop clerks (Druge).
2. To brave kids with camcorders (James O’Keefe, et. al.)
3. To former badboys (Breitbart).

And they’re doing GREAT. Most Americans are somewhat conservative, and with the net is is only a matter of time before most journalists also are somewhat conservative.

It’s only a matter of time, but if you want to speed it up I honestly think you should trash your TV set.

[OldPossum]

Good post. Thanks.

[OldPossum]

if you want to speed it up I honestly think you should trash your TV set.

That I did in the sense that I stopped watching it years ago and when it became obsolete I never got a conversion box. I do have it attached to a DVD player for stuff of my choosing.

[GOPJ]

The New York Times can’t help dripping with hatred. Or just dripping... or being drips.