mercredi 10 janvier 2018

RationalWiki article about Breitbart

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Andrew Breitbart (1969–2012) was a media personality created by Steve Bannon American right-wing media critic, webmaster and "Internet entrepreneur."
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What is it implying by saying that A.Breitbart was created by Bannon? Was Bannon an entrepreneur responsible for A.Breitbart's success?

Do you think that Breitbart.com underwent a "purge", as it says that if Andrew Breitbart
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could do one thing well, it was digging up actual dirt. His successor organization gave up that line a long time ago, to the extent that employees who actually write about issues get hounded out of the organization...[7]

Re-branding
More recently, Breitbart and its London affiliate has become a darling of the Alt-right crowd for its "breaking" coverage of Gamergate's war on women.

7. Gold, Hadas, "Steve Bannon’s ‘tough love’", Politico (Updated 09/02/16 12:16 PM EDT).
So Breitbart was responsible for promoting "Gamergate" as a major scandal, which weirdly turned "social justice" into a bad word among the Alt Right?
Gamergate was a ridiculous scandal over a girl making a game about depression called "Depression Quest". Here is the RationalWiki article on "Gamergate" (http://ift.tt/2qOgfXD).

His string of "Big" sites does not seem to make much sense. I take terms like "Big Business" and "Big Government" to refer to large, bureaucratic business interests and inefficient government projects. But he adds new names that don't seem to make sense. Rationalwiki says with a touch of humor:
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First out of the gate was Big Government, opened in September 2009, which was conspicuously silent about the single Biggest share of our Big Government's discretionary spending, the military.[48] This was followed (with far less fanfare than the first two) by Big Journalism in January 2010. The fourth site, Big Peace, rolled out on July 4th, 2010. He had many more blogs planned, including Big Education, Big Tolerance and Big Jerusalem.[49] Poe's Law.
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Big Jerusalem:
“If you think it’s bad to be a conservative in the mainstream media or Hollywood, think what it must be like to be a small democracy in the Middle East and challenge the postcolonial approach.

Big Peace:
“This will be my national security blog. Its mission is to try and force national security issues back on the front pages of the newspapers, in an era of ‘progressive pacifism.'”
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So peacemaking and "postcolonialism" are "big" special interests compared to, say, arms manufacturers?

Poe's Law says:
"Without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism."

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See also...
Astroturfing
Is Breitbart astroturf?


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