Chris Lehmann's Breitbart News Critique in The Baffler Is Brutal
"The alleged journalistic crisis now roiling the Breitbart operation is really no such thing, since Breitbart has never really been a journalistic enterprise."
The Baffler senior editor Chris Lehmann‘s essay on the embattled Breitbart News takes aim in particular at the precipitating incident that led to the dissent among its ranks, but let’s start with the first description we get of the organization, as “the gaudy home to the most truth-challenged persecution manias on the American right.”
From there, Lehmann hones in on Breitbart’s response to now-former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields being grabbed by Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, but also recalls the Breitbart of yesteryear, juxtaposing Breitbart’s analysis of grab footage with the organization’s own videos and its misleading edits from the James O’Keefe era.
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