Steve Bannon doesn’t want to destroy the media — he wants to reshape it
From his post at Breitbart, Trump’s former adviser will do what he did during the election: manipulate the narrative
As always, with Donald Trump, it all comes back to media coverage. On Saturday, less than 24 hours after his key adviser, Steve Bannon, left the White House — just the latest in a string of high-profile departures — Trump tweeted that Bannon would be a “tough and smart new voice at @BreitbartNews…maybe even better than before. Fake News needs the competition.”
Competition is one way of putting it. Perhaps more accurately another way would be: inspiration.
Breitbart is not a lonely corner of the internet where the vision Bannon (who has returned as the sites editor) has of the world will be isolated and unheard; rather, it’s the key node in an increasingly influential network of right-wing websites that will push the stories and theories that surface on its pages into the mainstream news cycle — right where Trump, and everyone else, will see them.
That’s exactly what happened in 2016.
This time last year, in the weeks following the Democratic National Convention, the Trump campaign started raising questions about the Clinton…
