A Far-Right Troll Talks to Andrew Marantz About the White House Press Corps
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 10 April 2017
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Lucian Wintrich, a young blogger, was recently appointed as the White House correspondent for the conservative political site Gateway Pundit. He has no professional experience as a reporter and doesn’t claim any interest in landing big stories. His goal is to attack media outlets that he regards as leftist, and he doesn’t shy away from name-calling. The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz questions Wintrich about trolling as a form of journalism.
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| 0:50.3 | On today's Politics and More podcast, the New Yorker's Andrew Morants talks to Lucian Wintrich, |
| 0:56.2 | the White House correspondent for the conservative political blog, The Gateway Pundit. |
| 1:04.6 | Andrew Morantz has been reporting for the New Yorker on the new brand of conservatism that the Trump administration has brought to Washington. |
| 1:11.8 | And these are people who are formerly on the very fringes of the right wing. |
| 1:16.7 | One of those is a young blogger named Lucian Winchrich. |
| 1:20.1 | Last year, Winchrich began writing for the pro-Trump website, The Gateway Pundit. |
| 1:24.8 | And a big part of what he does is trolling basically. |
| 1:28.2 | He'll mock women, |
| 1:34.8 | minorities, overweight people, trans people, liberals, you name it. Wintrich himself is gay and made up the hashtag Twinks for Trump. Pretty much anything to generate a little outrage. That's his game |
| 1:41.0 | so that you never know how much of what he's saying is real or sincere |
| 1:45.5 | or not. Lushin Winchrich is now right at the center of American politics as Gateway Pundits, |
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