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How Andrew Breitbart Hacked the Media
• Wired by Noah ShachtmanThis 2010 profile of Breitbart.com's founder Andrew Breitbart shows how he created the site's contrary worldview. Breitbart died in 2012.
Andrew Breitbart has been waiting 45 minutes for a filet mignon. He drums his fingers on the table in this plush Italian restaurant off Times Square, a place where the media types he regularly trashes used to flaunt their expense accounts — back when they still had them. Breitbart looks around for a waiter and launches into a stem-winder about collusion between Hollywood and the press — the "subtle and not-so-subtle use of propaganda to make a center-right nation move to the left.
"It's not just the nightly news," he says. "You're also getting television shows that reflect the same worldview, where Republicans are always the bad guys. Al Qaeda's never the bad guy. The Republican is always the bad guy."