As BREITBART NEWS surges in viewers past most of MSM news sites, threatened MSM shows its fangs nastily
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THREATENED by Steve Bannon's gutsiness and his effectiveness as an operative in the world of national affairs.... LAMESTREAM media now begins a attacking him claiming he's BIASED, which is hilarious considering how biased and fake LAMESTREAM MSM is.
But we must voice some defense of Bannon. Most of the time we see him making no journalistic errors when he criticizes the establishment. He is not politicking advocacy of drains eh swamp at the expense of factual reporting on the ills of DC. And you must assume he's doing some genuine good if poisonous corrupt LAMESTREAM MS is attacking him. LOL
======== Here is (edited for brevity) the HIT PIECE that USA TODAY ran against Bannon.... Sunday
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HEADLINE
Steve Bannon's return blurs the line between Breitbart News and his political operation
Eliza Collins, USA TODAY Published 12:37 p.m. ET Oct. 22, 2017
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WASHINGTON - Out of the White House, Steve Bannon has recaptured his news organization as a tool for his personal holy war against establishment lawmakers, including those in the president's own party.
Following President Trump's election, Breitbart News was [asserting to] the congressional press galleries that it is an independent news organization and deserved credentials to cover Capitol Hill with the same level of access as other mainstream news outlets. But since Bannon left his job as chief strategist to Trump this summer and returned to Breitbart as its executive chairman, he appears to have closely tied the newsroom's muscle to his personal political crusade.
[DTRI note - His "crusade" is most of the time apolitical so far as we can see and is simply against corruption and anti-nationalism]
Bannon and his allies have gone to war against the establishment wing of both parties and are getting behind a slate of anti-establishment, pro-Trump candidates across the country for the 2018 midterm elections.
[DTRI -- nothing wrong with that]
At the same time, Breitbart News is offering glowing coverage to the group of challengers. A recent article written by Washington political editor Matthew Boyle called them "the League of Extraordinary Candidates."
On Oct. 14, Bannon appeared at the conservative Values Voter Summit, attacking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and threatening to run candidates against any Republican lawmaker who didn't denounce Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., for criticizing Trump. Breitbart livestreamed the proceedings, and Bannon met Boyle for an interview after his speech.
Breitbart has never denied that it is a conservative news outlet, and it's been credited with fueling the movement that elected Trump. Bannon left Breitbart last summer to help run Trump's campaign. He went with Trump to the White House and resigned from Breitbart but returned to the news organization after he was forced out of the White House.
But Bannon seems aware of the importance of publicly separating the media outlet and his own political strategy. At least, to some degree.
"I think just by the fact that Steve is careful not to use the word 'endorsement' or 'endorse,' I think there is a separation of church and state there," Caputo said about Bannon's relationship with Breitbart.
Kelli Ward, who is running against Republican Sen. Jeff Flake in Arizona, got Bannon's support during a campaign rally Tuesday night when he spoke to conservative activists and called Ward the "whirlwind" headed toward the GOP elite.
Ward told USA TODAY she's met with Bannon many times and that his support and Breitbart's positive coverage is "of course" helpful because Arizona is a conservative state.
Breitbart points to the website's being the 50th most trafficked website according to Amazon Alexa's statistics. There are only three other news websites before it.
Following Trump's election, Breitbart was trying to obtain congressional press credentials. The credentials give reporters the same level of access as congressional staff and allow them to participate in White House "pools." The pool is a small group of reporters given access to events with the president and other administration officials when space is limited; those "pool" reporters send dispatches to the rest of the press corps.
Breitbart's quest to get access was eventually put on hold by the committee of correspondents that manage the congressional press galleries, and its temporary credentials were not renewed. The committee said it could not move forward because there were too many outstanding concerns about the organization's independence. The outlet no longer has a pending application, according to Breitbart spokesman Alexandra Preate.
In its effort to get official recognition in the first half of the year, Breitbart began to reveal more about its operations, including publicly disclosing its top editors and attempting to procure more mainstream office space. In the spring, a Breitbart spokesman told USA TODAY that the outlet was moving out of Bannon's townhouse - known as the "Breitbart Embassy" - and seeking office space in downtown Washington.
Preate says that most reporters telecommute or work out of the locations they're covering. "The townhouse is Mr. Bannon's residence and is not the official office of Breitbart," she told USA TODAY.
Breitbart also has bureaus in California, Texas, London and Israel and has stationed reporters throughout the world.
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[DTRI Editor's note.... BREITBART is a tainted conservative tool in that it has strong ties to Israel and the Ziocons. Take it for what it is, much of its reportage is useful. ]