MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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By Paul Farhi @ WashingtonPost.com, June 7
The clarion of the far right seems to be having second thoughts about how far right it wants to go.
Faced with an advertiser boycott and plummeting readership, Breitbart News has lately been trimming back some of its more extreme elements in what may be a bid for more mainstream respectability.
Gone: Prominently displayed stories appealing to overt racial prejudice, such as reports and essays about crimes committed by African Americans. Articles such as “Five Devastating Facts About Black-on-Black Crime” and “Black-on-Black Crime: Blame it on the System and Ignore the Evidence” have all but disappeared from the site.
Gone: Reporter Katie McHugh, who was fired by Breitbart on Monday for tweeting after the latest terrorist attack in London, “There would be no terror attacks in the U.K. if Muslims didn’t live there.” [....]
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I used to work at Breitbart. Here’s why I think they fired that reporter over a tweet.
It’s all about protecting Bannon.
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/13/2017 - 1:42am