“Breitbart thought that American Jews were insufficently pro-Israel” and too attracted to liberalism, says Dan Cassino, a political scientist at Fairleigh Dickinson University who studies conservative media. Breitbart’s story was amplified by other conservative media, and then mainstream outlets. According to Cassino, Breitbart attracts a “younger crowd” than is normal for conservative media like Fox News, whose median viewer is 68. Breitbart is commonly described as an alt-right website, but that may be underselling the extremism of the core sites of that movement. What about the relationship between the Trump White House and a publication whose former executive chair is now in power?

Source: The Guardian November 15, 2016 16:45 UTC