The Tea Party Gets Into the News Biz

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SNIP

Now Heritage has a new plan to exert its influence and, its leaders hope, win converts to the cause. On June 3 it will begin publishing the Daily Signal, a new digital news site whose primary focus will be straight reporting. “We came to the realization that the mainstream media had really abdicated the responsibility to do the news and do it well,” says Geoffrey Lysaught, vice president of strategic communications at the Heritage Foundation, who will also serve as publisher. The site aims to rectify the conservative perception that mainstream news slants to the left. “We plan to do political and policy news,” says Lysaught, “not with a conservative bent, but just true, straight-down-the-middle journalism.”

How does this help Heritage? The Daily Signal will also publish an opinion section aimed at a younger audience that isn’t thumbing through the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal. Heritage is betting that these readers, attracted to the Daily Signal’s news, will find themselves persuaded by the conservative commentary and analysis that will draw on the think tank’s scholars and researchers.

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http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-08/daily-signal-heritage-foundation-news-site-seeks-mainstream-impact#r=rss

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1. 'The site aims to rectify the conservative perception...'

Have the teabaggers changed the meaning of 'rectify' to mean something like 'putting their heads up their own asses?' Oh, that's 'rectum-fy'...nevermind.

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3. 'rectum-fy'

Purrrfect!

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2. To come to whatever newsworthy conclusion they come to...

...one must simply drink sixteen ounces of Daily Bleach.