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The Blaze: Glenn Beck's news website
It's time to realize that Glenn Beck is going to do whatever he wants whether it makes sense or not.
Tue, Aug 31 2010 at 5:24 PM
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LIVING LARGE: Glenn Beck's latest crusade: The news website world. (Photo: ZUMA Press)
It’s Glenn Beck’s world and we are just living in it.
Just two days after the gold-slinging, environmental-hating, right-wing media mogul held his Restoring Honor rally at the Lincoln Memorial, Beck launched a news and information website. His site, The Blaze, is described by Beck as a place, “where you can find breaking news, original reporting, insightful opinions and engaging videos about the stories that matter most."
So what matters most in the world of Glenn Beck? It appears racism at Al Sharpton’s gathering to celebrate the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a Dream” speech is pretty important. There’s also some flame-fanning to be done on the ground zero mosque debate, a few articles on “Obamacare,” and one post about a recent report criticizing the practices of the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change. All right there on the front page — well, actually screen — of theblaze.com
Interestingly enough, Beck’s top stories of the day don’t match those posted on the Fox News website. As for material written by Beck himself, his “Message from Glenn Beck,” explains that he had to put a journalism team together to counter other “news” sites. “We moved fast. We built the team and the site in just two months,” Beck wrote.
Of course, many comparisons are surfacing that Beck is trying to be the right-wing’s Arianna Huffington, with The Blaze being his Huffington Post. But Beck is more powerful than Huffington. While the Huff Post is still the gold standard for news blog sites, Huffington’s books don’t sell nearly as well as Beck’s. And in all my travels to the memorials in Washington, I have never seen a bunch of flag-cloaked folks screaming at a rally hosted by Huffington. Advantage Beck.
Beck has become some sort of right-wing King Midas. When he’s not selling gold during commercial breaks, everything he touches turns into it. His opinions on his television show may not make sense, but his ratings are through the roof. He’s certainly no Ernest Hemingway, but he has made millions selling books to many of the same folks who buy his gold. And Beck is certainly not worthy of being in the same sentence as Martin Luther King Jr., but thanks to his rally, it happens all the time now.
So why not take shot a online journalism? He’s no Edward R. Murrow, but that doesn’t matter.
After all it’s Glenn Beck's world, and this stuff is all just in it.
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Why are some people so afraid of Beck?
wow, why do they feel the need to do that?
his opinions on his tv show don't make sense? Did I read that correctly??
He does make sense...that's why he has such a following...it's the leftist press that doesn't make sense...that's why they have lost so many readers and viewers!
I am a life long conservative----that means that I conserve and am not wasteful in all aspects of my life and world: Water, money, the world's resources, etc. Why do you assume that Conservatives are Earth Haters???
when you start looking up things Glen says., he knows what he is talking about. don't kill the messenger. The truth hurts. wake up people, it is republican or demorcrate, let' start being American. You go Glen.
If alott more people would take what Glenn said we would be better off in this world.Keep it up Glenn
when you start looking up things Glen says., he knows what he is talking about. don't kill the messenger. The truth hurts. wake up people, it is republican or demorcrate, let' start being American. You go Glen.
I love how the left attacks the right/ with name calling and no facts/ Beck ROCKS
came here by mistake, looking for the blaze. There are alot of people that think Beck makes more sense than all the nuts in D.C. Be careful of that green eyed monster.
What are you guys afraid of? It is so-o-o unbelievable in a country that rings w/ the screams of free speech, that Beck is so assailed by the liberals at whatever he has to say. It is his opinion!! And by the way, abt. 1 million more PLUS Americans! Don't tell me how many were there on 8/28, I know, I saw, I was there!! Unbelievable.
and if Beck wants to be stupid, that's his constitutional right. It's also our constitutional right to voice our opinion about his stupidity.
(BTW, Huff Post rocks!)
Stop the name calling. That's like standing on your soap box and screaming obscenities. Grow up.
So, in your opinion Glen Beck has no right to speak his mind, but you can spew your hatred to all 5 of your avid readers? Thanks for the link to his website, this is probably the most traffic you'll ever have.
You know you're in trouble when you read the opening sentence and see the words "makes sense" in close proximity to "Glenn Beck".
I stumbled here via a google search glen beck blaze, I too have to say thanks for the link and the article was pretty crappy.
hey thanks for providing the link to the blaze, for some reason it wasn't coming up when I searched it on google (government censoring or common mistake?) and I was not sure if it was theblaze.com or blaze.com, or .org. It should probably be .edu, but anyway. Anyway have fun with your website that I have never heard of and probably will never return to again, unless I need another link. Oh yea, your article was pathetic