USA Universities learn the consequences of disrespecting free speech

[rayzer at riseup.net (Razer)]

On 12/03/2016 09:33 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

> Your cite below quotes Alexa, which has Breitbart at number 36
> in the US - ever so slightly above "microscopic" it seems.

It's the same microscopic number of people over and over and over again.

Talk UNIQUE hits.

That effect isn't limited to right-side pubs btw.

Rr

> On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 09:21:42PM -0800, Razer wrote:
>> On 12/03/2016 08:53 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>>
>>> Thus itâ??s easy to see how Kellogg could make the mistake it has made in
>>> picking a fight with Breitbart and, by implication, all Americans on the right
>> The number of Americans who read Breitbart is microscopic.
>> The ones who actually believe it's analysis can't spell 'analysis'.
>>
>> Rr
> Your cite below quotes Alexa, which has Breitbart at number 36
> in the US - ever so slightly above "microscopic" it seems.
>
> Admittedly your president-elect's recent victory has boosted their
> readership quite substantially, either that or there's a problem with
> the data.
>
> Made an assumption and spouted that as "fact" lately?
>
> =()
>
>
>> Ps. It was just noted that Donald Trump @WhiteHouseInc has interest in
>> many of the Fake News sites:
>>
>>> Laura Ingraham, a close Trump ally currently under consideration to be
>>> Trumpâ??s White House press secretary, owns an online publisher called
>>> Ingraham Media Group that runs a number of sites, including LifeZette,
>>> a news site that frequently posts articles of dubious veracity. One
>>> video produced by LifeZette this summer, ominously titled â??Clinton
>>> Body Count,â?? promoted a conspiracy theory that the Clinton family had
>>> some role in the plane crash death of John F. Kennedy, Jr., as well as
>>> the deaths of various friends and Democrats.
>>
>>> But LifeZette, for all its influence, pales in comparison to the sites
>>> run by Floyd Brown, a Republican consultant close to Trumpâ??s inner
>>> circle of advisers. Brown gained notoriety nearly three decades ago
>>> for his role in helping to produce the â??Willie Hortonâ?? campaign
>>> advertisement, a spot criticized for its use of racial messaging to
>>> derail Michael Dukakisâ??s presidential bid. Brown is also the political
>>> mentor of David Bossie, an operative who went to work for Trumpâ??s
>>> presidential campaign this year after founding the Citizens United
>>> group. In an interview this year, Brown called Trump campaign manager
>>> Kellyanne Conway a â??longtime friend.â??
>>>
>>> Brown now produces a flow of reliably pro-Trump Internet content
>>> through a company he co-owns with his family called Liftable Media
>>> Inc., which operates a number of high-impact, tabloid-style news
>>> outlets that exploded in size over the course of the election. One of
>>> Brownâ??s sites, Western Journalism, is the 81st largest site in the
>>> U.S. with 13 million monthly unique monthly visitors, according to
>>> rankings maintained by the site Alexa. Another, called Conservative
>>> Tribune, is the 50th largest site with over 19 million monthly unique
>>> visitors. Liftable Media is run on a day to day basis by Brownâ??s son,
>>> Patrick, who is the president of Liftable Media.
>>>
>>>
>>> Brownâ??s sites churn out bombastic headlines with little regard to the
>>> truth. One viral piece shared by Brownâ??s news outlets claimed that
>>> President Obama had redesigned the White House logo to change the
>>> American flag to a white flag, â??a common symbol for surrender, which
>>> has many people wondering if Obama was trying to secretly signal to
>>> Americaâ??s enemies that he was surrendering.â?? The Facebook post touted
>>> the article with the line, â??We all know Obama hates the United States,
>>> but what he just did to the White House logo is beyond the pale.â??
>>
>> https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/laura-ingraham-lifezette/

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