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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1043997)

12/20/2017 8:11:16 PM

From: Brumar89

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.... Bannon reportedly speaks regularly to Trump, “Steve constantly goes a bridge too far, and usually the bridge falls apart,” said Chris Ruddy, a friend of the president’s and chief executive of the conservative-leaning Newsmax cable television and online outlet. “I hope the president continues to listen to Steve’s advice—and then does the opposite.”
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Despite boasts of “massive scale” and being “dominant across every spectrum” with a “SirusXM deal [that] ensures future dominance” (per a text message from a Breitbart loyalist to The Daily Beast), the site’s readership, as reflected in web traffic measurements by Comscore, has plateaued at less than 15 million unique visitors a month after attracting millions more during the presidential campaign, according to The Washington Post. (By contrast, The Daily Beast racked up around 19 million uniques in November, according to Comscore.)
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In February, Breitbart was forced into a highly embarrassing separation from its most visible star, gay alt-right avatar Milo Yiannopoulos, after a conservative group revealed his apparent endorsement on a podcast of man-boy pedophilia. He was welcomed back for awhile in July, with Breitbart posting a lengthy excerpt from his self-published memoir, but seemingly shunned after BuzzFeed’s Joe Bernstein reported in October on Yiannopoulos’ active role, as a senior Breitbart editor, in giving an under-the-radar forum to neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups.

In June, the website was compelled to fire longtime writer Katie McHugh for her persistently racist posts on Twitter (e.g., “British settlers built the USA. ‘Slaves’ built the country much as cows ‘built’ McDonald’s”) after effusively praising her the year before—perhaps because of the sensitivity of Breitbart’s once and future executive chairman Bannon’s tenuous position in the Trump White House.

What a difference a year makes. “Neither Steve nor I are big fans of Twitter,” Breitbart editor Alex Marlow had emailed The Daily Beast back in March 2016, “but after reviewing these tweets, we’re considering giving Katie a weekly column.

”In November, Breitbart’s most important single financial backer, right-wing hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, ended his participation in the website by selling his stake to his two daughters. Among Mercer’s reasons, which he described as “personal” in a resignation letter, was Breitbart’s association with Yiannopoulos, who Mercer said has “caused pain and divisiveness undermining the open and productive discourse that I had hoped to facilitate.” He also cited his political differences with Bannon.......

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