The New Alternative Media

Yesterday Andrew Breitbart's BigJournalism launched. This coming Monday, former MSNBC and CNN host Tucker Carlson will launch his own conservative news site The Daily Caller “along the lines of The Huffington Post” with an ideology “not in sync with the current program.”

More from the Washington Independent.

Veterans of other new media start-ups are sold on what they’ve heard about the “HuffPo of the Right.” Conor Friedersdorf, a freelance journalist who worked for the short-lived site Culture11, contrasted Carlson’s focus on journalism with the much-praised, quick-hitting tactics of Breitbart’s Big Hollywood, Big Government, and Big Journalism.

“I hope that The Daily Caller aspires to produce writing that is as well written and professionally edited as the stuff that the talented Tucker Carlson writes for Esquire,” said Friedersdorf. “The alternative — the Andrew Breitbart model — is to publish poorly reasoned, atrociously edited screeds on the cheap, on the assumption that ideologically friendly readers will keep clicking anyway.”

Partisan opinion aside, isn't it interesting that even as the mainstream "dead tree" media are fading away, new media enterprises are seemingly healthy - and growing. Especially if they are, as Carlson says, "not in sync with the current program."