The Torch Is Being Passed to A New Generation of Right-Wing Media
At the Washington Free Beacon, The Federalist, and the Independent Journal Review, they're ready to pay any price, bear any burden to defeat Jon Stewart and his ilk.
An employee types on a Belkin International Inc. "Ultimate" tablet keyboard at Pepcom DigitalFocus in New York, U.S., on Thursday, April 11, 2013.
Photographer: Scott Eells/Bloomberg“If you’re looking for something, you might not find it,” says Lachlan Markay. “If you’re looking for anything, then, who knows?”
It’s the middle of November, early morning, and Markay is perched in a chair right outside the biennial meeting of the Democracy Alliance. He is not allowed inside. He is never allowed inside. As a reporter for the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website founded in 2012, Markay’s assignment is to sit in a lobby café of the Mandarin Oriental hotel for three days, acquiring news about the meeting the way a shipwrecked sailor might acquire driftwood.