Next month Tucker Carlson, the Fox News commentator and one-time CNN “Crossfire” host, along with former Cheney aide Neil Patel, plans on launching The Daily Caller, an ambitious and well-funded conservative web site that Carlson says “will be defined by its reporting, by the new facts it adds.” But he’s going to have company.
Andrew Breitbart, who’s already made some dents in what he considers the “Democrat-media complex” in 2009, says he’s going to roll out his own site, Big Journalism, a few days earlier – designed, he says, to report stories that the mainstream media is either missing or willfully ignoring…
“There was more of a niche media on the right for many years, and then Huffington Post and TPM” — as Talking Point Memo is commonly referred to — “took it to a new professional level that in some ways kind of leapfrogged over what the conservatives were doing,” Carroll said. “Now, I think [conservatives] are reevaluating and responding to the market.”
Launched in 2005, Huffington Post is ranked by Technorati as the most influential site in the blogosphere. Looking at incoming links in analyzing “standing and influence in the blogosphere,” Technorati includes a half-dozen conservative sites in its Top 30: National Review’s The Corner (7); NewsBusters (14); Pajamas Media (17); Big Government (22); Michelle Malkin (26); and Power Line (29).
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