Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller Launches with a Dash of Sex, a Dearth of Original Content
New website alert! Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller officially launched this week, taking its place alongside Politico, HuffingtonPost, Slate, Salon and a host of internet publications fighting for political eyeballs and online ad revenue. The early verdict? Nice work on the business front (the site’s initial advertising inventory is apparently sold out), but that situation’s unlikely to last unless this sucker ups its ante on the content front.
For starters, the front page seems to feature quite a few stories until you realize that everything NOT labeled “The DC Exclusive” is a reprint/teaser from some other publication. Even several of the “Exclusive” stories are essentially derivative: “Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel admits weak messaging on health care from White House” does little more than quote his appearance on an MSNBC show, while “Liberal Ezra Klein and conservative George Will: Harry Reid wasn’t wrong” is an even better example of copy/paste substituting for actual journalism.
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