Digby: Why Breitbart's Sleaze Plays So Well With the Mainstream Media

[marmar]

Hullabaloo, via AlterNet:



Why Breitbart's Sleaze Plays So Well With the Mainstream Media

Politico:

David Mark

When Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) admitted that he had indeed sent suggestive photos and tweets, he apologized to Andrew Breitbart, who first published the material. The blogger has in the past criticized major news organizations for ignoring news of consequence to conservatives, while journalists have long harbored suspicions about Breitbart’s motives and methods.

Have mainstream news organizations denied Breitbart his journalistic due because his targets have largely been on the political left? Will the Weiner episode – arguably Breitbart’s biggest political scalp yet – make journalists take his work more seriously?

(Go ahead and look at the responses if you have the stomach for it.) But merely by asking the question in this, Politico has framed the argument as a matter of partisanship not journalistic integrity.

This was a big, big win for Breitbart. And he will always be successful despite his record of hoaxes and lies not because even a stopped clock is right twice a day, but because the so called liberal media just loves the stuff he does.

This is the key, you know. It's not about his ideology --- it's about his ability to provide them with the fetid, adolescent, lizard brain, tabloid dreck they crave. In their heart of hearts they all want to be TMZ.

By Digby | Sourced from Hullabaloo
Posted at June 8, 2011, 12:35 pm


http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/610219/why_breitbart%27s_sleaze_plays_so_well_with_the_mainstream_media/

[Moondog]

1. "Journalistic integrity" is an oxymoron. n/t

[gkhouston]

2. Digby didn't need to write this.

Including a link to the song "Dirty Laundry" would have sufficed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46bBWBG9r2o