MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
By Hada Gold @ Politico.com, Feb. 1
Did Independent Journal Review's little-noticed exclusive signal a changing of the guard in D.C. media?
During last year’s presidential campaign, the upstart, millennial-focused conservative website Independent Journal Review was best known for videos of Ted Cruz cooking bacon on a machine gun and candidates pardoning turkeys.
On Tuesday, it scored what many outlets would consider a major scoop, beating other media by at least two hours with the news that President Donald Trump would choose Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court — but no one seemed to notice [....]