The Breitbart News Network, usually just called Breitbart, is a conservative-leaning news website. As a blogger in the early 2000s, Mr. Breitbart was taken under the wing of Matt Drudge before setting out on his own. In a column after Mr. Breitbart’s death, titled “The Provocateur,” David Carr of The New York Times wrote that he “understood in a fundamental way how discourse could be profoundly shaped by the pixels generated far outside the mainstream media he held in such low regard.”Ben Shapiro, a conservative commentator who was 17 when he met Mr. Breitbart and who became the editor-at-large of Breitbart.com in 2012 about three weeks before Mr. Breitbart died, said in an interview Wednesday that Mr. Breitbart was not ideologically driven. PhotoHe became the executive chairman of Breitbart in 2012, after Mr. Breitbart’s death, and helped adapt the anti-Clinton book “Clinton Cash” into a film. “As I said when I left Breitbart,” Mr. Shapiro said, “I am absolutely appalled by what Breitbart’s become.

Source: New York Times August 17, 2016 16:32 UTC