Posted on 05/26/2009 3:39:13 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
Pundit Tucker Carlson publicly announced Tuesday that a right-leaning news site resembling the Huffington Post he's been planning will go live within weeks.
Carlson will launch TheDailyCaller.com, which he said would focus on reporting on the Obama administration and "adding facts to the conversation."
"We are a general-interest newspaper-format style site," Carlson told conservative bloggers at the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. "There just aren't enough people covering this administration and telling the people what's going on."
Carlson, a former conservative and libertarian pundit (most notably on CNN), touted his site as a home for basic reporting.
"Tell the truth, and be accurate," Carlson said of the venture's goals. "It's very important to live up to the basic standards of journalism."
Carlson said that the site's reporters would share in the profits based on how much traffic is drawn in by their work. He said the site would seek to "drive" the news, similar to the Drudge Report, the Huffington Post, the New York Times, and other major news outlets. (The site's motto, Carlson said, is "every seven minutes," and seeks to be "even faster than Drudge.")
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Yawn
Cool
Tucker Carlson? Who dat?
I wish him luck. We badly need legit conservative internet media outlets to touch stuff the MSM won’t touch and to drive the discussion
We have lost this battle badly since 2004 (see the smears on Palin, Meirs, Jindal)
ping
The more the merrier. There can’t be too many alternatives to the likes of the Huffpo.
Would it not be better for a real right wing Conservative to do this instead of Tucker?
I like him better since he lost the bow tie.
Wonder who he is going to hire to be right-leaning?
The squishy neo-cons get their own website.
Stop the presses.
Tucker is such a nerd. Dailycaller? :scoffs:
Was TheCarlsonPost.com already taken?
This could turn out to be a good thing. Just have to wait and see who the contributors will be. If he can create a site that is actually factual and it gets good traffic, it cannot hurt.
Should have named it Milquetoast...
IF IT LEANS TO THE RIGHT, IT MUST BE ABOUT ABOUT A 10TH OF A DEGREE RIGHT. THE OLD TUCKSTER IS A PUNK FOR THE LEFTIES.
Tucker...sounds like....
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