Breitbart Analysis
As technology has grown to make communication easier and easier, the sheer quantity of media has exploded into the insanely huge network of news options available today. In 1980, nearly 90% of all primetime television watchers were watching the “Big Three” networks of CBS, NBC, and ABC. By 2005, the number had fallen to 32% and is even lower today.1 Long time news agencies like The New York Times and The Atlantic are facing fierce competition from exclusively online media distributors like Buzzfeed and Breitbart. Not to mention the rising amount of people whose primary news sources are noncurated social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit.2 With such a fragmented media landscape, it is now more important than ever for the responsible
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Their secondary point flagrantly shows their bias by insinuating that those against it are only doing so for ulterior motives, specifically that Muslims are trying to restructure American culture and “elitist” Democrats want more minorities to shore up votes. Historically, Breitbart has been the news of choice for fringe conservatives and the so-called alt-right.9 However, since Trump picked up Steve Bannon, the former CEO of Breitbart, early last summer as a campaign strategist, the site has grown significantly to encompass a much broader range of deep red Americans. Breitbart prides itself on being an outsider news source for people too conservative for the Wall Street Journal or even the National Review. No one else in the media matches the partisanship and size of Breitbart making them nearly a monopoly on far-right news. Their closest competition comes in the form of FOX News, the Drudge Report, and independent journals, but as of right now they are the primary Pro-Trump news source. Their goal and values reflect trying to glorify deeply conservative policy while condemning liberal and globalization ideals. They are unabashedly biased and do little to hide it. Though this seems appropriate as its appeal is not in its objectivity or nuance rather its deeply conservative principles. Although the polls used are accurate, the video they use to portray protesters and the conclusions they make on their motives is pure conjecture playing itself off as fact. Conservatives who visit this site and read these types of articles will only be further ingrained in their biases. Their goal is not so much as to inform, rather to tell its
Their secondary point flagrantly shows their bias by insinuating that those against it are only doing so for ulterior motives, specifically that Muslims are trying to restructure American culture and “elitist” Democrats want more minorities to shore up votes. Historically, Breitbart has been the news of choice for fringe conservatives and the so-called alt-right.9 However, since Trump picked up Steve Bannon, the former CEO of Breitbart, early last summer as a campaign strategist, the site has grown significantly to encompass a much broader range of deep red Americans. Breitbart prides itself on being an outsider news source for people too conservative for the Wall Street Journal or even the National Review. No one else in the media matches the partisanship and size of Breitbart making them nearly a monopoly on far-right news. Their closest competition comes in the form of FOX News, the Drudge Report, and independent journals, but as of right now they are the primary Pro-Trump news source. Their goal and values reflect trying to glorify deeply conservative policy while condemning liberal and globalization ideals. They are unabashedly biased and do little to hide it. Though this seems appropriate as its appeal is not in its objectivity or nuance rather its deeply conservative principles. Although the polls used are accurate, the video they use to portray protesters and the conclusions they make on their motives is pure conjecture playing itself off as fact. Conservatives who visit this site and read these types of articles will only be further ingrained in their biases. Their goal is not so much as to inform, rather to tell its