Reporters Mackenzie Weinger and Alexander Burns of The Politico have a big piece out this week on an emerging trend in the new media game: Republican political operatives creating their own news websites. According to them, these “highly specialized, partisan-leaning sites” are generally confined to a “small, insider-obsessed universe” – relying on the mainstream media to pick up their scoops.
“The websites post on the news in a range of tones, at different levels of seriousness and with varying degrees of attempted objectivity,” Weigner and Burns note. “But all of them share a few key characteristics: They produce at least some original content and attempt – with uneven success – to drive news coverage and media narratives.”
Of interest, the article references South Carolina’s own FITS News – which it claims is “in its own category of notoriety.” You know, like Biggie. Or the infamous El Guapo.
That’s curious …
Last time we checked FITS was hardly a “GOP” site. In fact our position on the Republican party is pretty clear.
Oh well … Weigner and Burns spelled the name of our website (and its “notorious” founding editor) correctly, which at the end of the day is all we really care about.
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Your positions on our Republican governor were gonna be quite clear, but the book never came out. Heh.
Congratulations to Sic for the recognition. With the commentators throwing their weight behind Fitsnews, and churning out our daily efforts, this will become the “go to” site for new readers — well, for whatever rings their bells or rattles their chains.
I would even bet that Al-Jazeera will have a dedicated “investigative reporter” just to read Al-Fitsjeera. After all, what nefarious scheme is afoot with these so-called reality shows which are only on the coasts of South Carolina?
This is an extremist right-wing site.FITS right in with the GOP.