Posted by
AJH on Friday, February 20, 2009 9:39:14 PM
Breitbart's Big Hollywood is featured prominently in the Financial Times today. The writer also mentions The Wrap and Deadline Hollywood.
The other new site is Big Hollywood, the latest online venture from Andrew Breitbart, who has worked on some of the internet’s most popular news sites. A co-creator of the Huffington Post, he has also had a long-term editorial relationship with the Drudge Report, one of the most visited websites.
Mr Breitbart aims to redress what he says is Hollywood’s liberal bias. His site uses the “group blog” model and has already attracted plenty of offerings from conservative Hollywood thinkers who Mr Breitbart says have been unfairly marginalised in the film industry because of their views.
“There are people out there who have been ignored by Hollywood,” he says. “The mainstream media – and Hollywood is complicit in this – has created an intellectual status quo.”
Mr Breitbart is targeting different users to Ms Waxman but he says the impact of new Hollywood sites that reach highly targeted audiences so beloved of advertisers could be dire for Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. “There’s an opening here to blow them out of the water.”
AJH