Is Breitbart a legitimate source?

[Beet]

Yeah, it is. It's basically the right-wing version of the Huffington Post. Sure, there's a right-wing slant that I strongly dislike, and the comments are a horror show, but Huffington Post has a left-wing slant, and that's a great site and very legitimate. I've never seen anything on Breitbart that' actually untrue.

[Cashew]

Yes. Like it or not had it not been for them the Swedish, German politicians, police forces would have gotten away with covering up refugee violence.

[Santander]

It's a tabloid-style site that can be entertaining. They are a real news organization, just a very one-sided one. That being said, I stopped reading them because it got too much and I felt the site incited too much hatred for no good reason.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Of course it's not news, give me a break. All they do is find disingenuous counterexamples to reality to get people riled up. That's not news! There are no newsworthy stories on there

[(Still) muted by Kalwejt until March 31]

Agreed w/Beet and Santander.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Agreed w/Beet and Santander.

[ApatheticAustrian]

Yeah, it is. It's basically the right-wing version of the Huffington Post.

not really.

there are a lot of conservative sites which combine the HUFFPO mix but the 2017 BB is not only much more influential but also much more driven by editorial control than blogging spirit of any kind.

besides the fact that i would suggest, BB is the brainchild of a far more radical idea, while HUFFPO is a standard center-left to left aggregator...not trying to crush the democratic party from the far-left.

[ApatheticAustrian]

Yes. Like it or not had it not been for them the Swedish, German politicians, police forces would have gotten away with covering up refugee violence.

absurd.....this publication is next-to-unknown voer here, especially in 2015 and we got enough sites like that of our own.

[Horus]

Yes, but that doesn't mean they aren't still trash.

[DavidB.]

What does "a legitimate source" even mean? To me, yes. To others, probably not.

[ApatheticAustrian]

and ofc.....source for..what?

i learn about the world-view of the cultural/alt-right movement,

information i wouldn't get somewhere else? rarely..but they are great at politicizing daily life.

[Technocracy Timmy]

"Renegade Jew"

So legit

[Rjjr77]

"Renegade Jew"

So legit

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/11/16/horowitz-renegade-jew-steve-bannon-witch-hunt/

[ApatheticAustrian]

i don't read HUFFPO anymore regularily since 4-5 years and i have read BB just since about 1 year, but i can't really understand how huffpo should be closer to BB than any onther trashy conservative yellow-press site.

BB is a power-center of the alt-right and a driving force of the occupied GOP....is HUFFPO the brain and heart of the sanders revolution or elements even more outside the DNC on the far-left?

[ApatheticAustrian]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/11/16/horowitz-renegade-jew-steve-bannon-witch-hunt/

bill kristol and ben shapiro seem to disagree and i don't think they are liberals.

[Rjjr77]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/11/16/horowitz-renegade-jew-steve-bannon-witch-hunt/

bill kristol and ben shapiro seem to disagree and i don't think they are liberals.

Didn't say they were, When interpreting something I defer to the author when meaning is discussed, so should everyone else. No point in inference when the author says his reasoning.

[ApatheticAustrian]

No point in inference when the author says his reasoning.

beg you pardon, but an author can't be the only voice worthy of hearing regarding the consequences of a text.

[Rjjr77]

No point in inference when the author says his reasoning.

beg you pardon, but an author can't be the only voice worthy of hearing regarding the consequences of a text.

If we are discussing the meaning of a written work, the author is the final arbiter of the meaning of said work. No point in arguing about what was meant by something written when the author says what it was written about. You're not one of those people who says the old man and the sea is an allegory too are you?

[ApatheticAustrian]

If we are discussing the meaning of a written work, the author is the final arbiter of the meaning of said work. No point in arguing about what was meant by something written when the author says what it was written about. You're not one of those people who says the old man and the sea is an allegory too are you?

i am ofc a constructivist like most people working with media but i mean, i am not rejecting the right of mister horowitz to say what HE wanted to say.  I am just rejecting the notion, that an author can only be blamed for his intentions but not his means to reach that conclusion.

[Antonio the Sixth]

It has some good commentary on pop culture, but that's about it.

[Mr. Reactionary]

No faker than huffpo where they spent close to a year adding a straightup opinion editorial anti trump signature to any news article referencing trump. Or when they made the "journalistic" decision that no article referencing trump would be allowed in the news section.

[ApatheticAustrian]

No faker than huffpo where they spent close to a year adding a straightup opinion editorial anti trump signature to any news article referencing trump. Or when they made the "journalistic" decision that no article referencing trump would be allowed in the news section.

not "faker".

just much less "top-down"-controlled or powerful/heart of the "sanders revolution" or something like that.

and to be totally fair...

you can think about the HUFFPO editorial decisions re: trump what you want but.... in fact many MANY right-wing pundits and sites blamed the media for not following HUFFPO's lead and creating trump through taking him seriously and letting him suck all oxygen out of the air.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Yes. Like it or not had it not been for them the Swedish, German politicians, police forces would have gotten away with covering up refugee violence.

absurd.....this publication is next-to-unknown voer here, especially in 2015 and we got enough sites like that of our own.

Breitbart managed to make the headlines in Germany though after they falsely reported in January that a 1,000-Muslim mob set a church on fire in Dortmund. #fakenews

Voted No (normal).

[Santander]

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2016/forecast/president

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So legit.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I wouldn't believe a thing I read on Breitbart without verifying it somewhere else, so by that standard it's not "legitimate."