Baby Breitbarts to pop up across the country?

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
> Date: May 1, 2018 at 7:08:19 AM EDT
> To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior () attrition org>
> Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Baby Breitbarts to pop up across the country?
>
> (x-posted)
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> Baby Breitbarts to pop up across the country?
> By JASON SCHWARTZ
> 04/30/2018 05:24 PM EDT
>
> Updated 04/30/2018 10:50 PM EDT
>
> In March, Congresswoman Diane Black, a top candidate for governor in Tennessee, put out a campaign ad that seemed at 
> first glance to be utterly textbook: a scene of President Donald Trump embracing her played while a quote from a 
> local news outlet is displayed in the foreground: “President Trump to Rep Diane Black: ‘You Came Through’ on Tax 
> Reform,” it read, citing a headline from the Tennessee Star.
>
> Close watchers may have had just one question: What is the Tennessee Star?
>
> Visitors to its website would have had a hard time figuring that out. Though it looks like a normal newspaper site, 
> many — if not most — Star stories lack a byline, and at the time the ad debuted the site had no masthead nor 
> information explaining who owns or runs it. A click on the “Contact Us” tab revealed a phone number, a couple of 
> email addresses, and a mailing address that goes to a UPS store in Franklin, Tennessee. But there was no information 
> indicating that the Star is, in fact, a right-wing site, described by many as a “Tennessee Breitbart.”
>
> Launched in February 2017, the Star is part of a growing trend of opaque, locally focused, ideological outlets, 
> dressed up as traditional newspapers. From the Arizona Monitor to the Maine Examiner, sites with names and layouts 
> designed to echo those of nonpartisan publications — and with varying levels of credibility — have emerged across the 
> country, aimed at influencing local politics by stepping into the coverage void left by the collapsing finances of 
> local newspapers.
>
> The Star has successfully gained traction among the Tennessee political elite, raising questions over whether the 
> current news climate is ripe for these type of Breitbart-like local sites to proliferate across the country.
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> https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/30/breitbart-tennessee-fake-news-560670



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