The Torch Is Being Passed to A New Generation of Right-Wing Media
That combination of irreverence, scoops and spite is creating something new on the right. Conservative media, never somnolent, is in a new and different boom period, led by millennial writers who are striking out against fresh targets. The Independent Journal Review, an aggregation-heavy site launched by a veteran of Republican campaigns, has made a steady profit and generated eight-figure numbers of Facebook shares for its content. The Federalist, launched last year as the latest of 32-year old Ben Domenech’s publications, got Cosmos host Neil DeGrasse Tyson to reluctantly admit he’d fabricated a George W. Bush quote that had been delighting his like-minded audiences. And that was after a National Review cover story by Charles Cooke, a 2007 graduate of Oxford University, labeling DeGrasse Tyson as the icon of a cult of nerds whose faux expertise was wrecking America.
