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Andrew Breitbart

アンドリュー・ブライトバート　/　あんどりゅー・ぶらいとばーと

American journalist

February 1, 1969 – March 1, 2012　・　Los Angeles, California, United States

California
journalist
publisher
editing staff

My Take

I find Andrew Breitbart one of the most consequential and most troubling media figures of his era. You cannot tell the story of how the internet rewired American news without him: HuffPost, the Drudge Report, and finally the site that bears his name. I disagree with much of what that outlet became, and the academic criticism of it is well documented. Still, as an editor I am fascinated by his instinct for attention; he grasped earlier than almost anyone that modern media battles would be fought over narrative and outrage. His death in 2012 at forty-three left the machine running without its inventor, and we are still living with the results.

Overview

Andrew James Breitbart (; February 1, 1969 – March 1, 2012) was an American conservative journalist and political commentator who was the founder of Breitbart News and a co-founder of HuffPost. After helping in the early stages of HuffPost and the Drudge Report, Breitbart created Breitbart News, now a far-right news and opinion website, which has been described as misogynistic, xenophobic, and racist by academics and…

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1. Profile

Name (English): Andrew Breitbart
Name (Japanese): アンドリュー・ブライトバート
Reading: あんどりゅー・ぶらいとばーと
Born: February 1, 1969 – March 1, 2012
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aquarius / Rooster
Origin: Los Angeles, California, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: journalist / publisher / editing staff / conspiracy theorist / opinion journalist

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Tulane University of Louisiana

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Official sitehttps://Breitbart.com
Xhttps://x.com/AndrewBreitbart
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Breitbart

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