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Line 62: === Breitbart News === Bannon was a founding member of the board of Breitbart News<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/andrew-breitbart-news-executives-death-301754|title=Breitbart News Names Executives Who Will Run Company in Wake of Founder's Death|last=Bond|first=Paul|date=March 19, 2012|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|publisher=|access-date=November 23, 2016}}</ref>, a [[far-right]]<ref name="Bauder"/><ref name="Elliott"/><ref name="Gidda"/> news, opinion and commentary website which, according to Philip Elliott and Zeke J Miller of [[Time (magazine)]], has "pushed racist, sexist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic material into the vein of the [[alt-right|alternative right]]".<ref name=Elliott/><ref name="Posner2016"/><ref name="alt-right"/><ref name="Josh Hafner"/><ref name="Callum Borchers"/><ref name="Jessica Taylor"/><ref name="Joe Sterling"/><ref name=":7">{{Cite news|url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/03/breitbart-to-announce-new-management-117836|title=Breitbart to announce new management|last=Hagey|first=Keach|date=2012-03-19|work=|newspaper=POLITICO|access-date=2016-11-14|via=}}</ref> In March 2012, after founder [[Andrew Breitbart|Andrew Breitbart's]] death, Bannon became executive chair of Breitbart News LLC, the parent company of [[Breitbart News]].<ref name=":1">{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/17/trump-reshuffles-staff-in-his-own-image/ |title=Trump shakes up campaign, demotes top adviser|website=Washington Post|access-date=2016-08-17}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite news|url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/03/breitbart-to-announce-new-management-117836.html|title=Breitbart to announce new management|date=March 19, 2012|work=Politico|last1=Hagey|first1=Keach|accessdate=August 12, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-steve-bannon-taxes_us_57b4b93be4b034dc73254691|title=Trump Campaign CEO Steve Bannon Failed to Properly Pay Taxes For Several Years|last=Bobic|first=Igor|last2=|first2=|date=2016-08-18|website=The Huffington Post|publisher=|access-date=2016-11-15}}</ref> Under his leadership, Breitbart took a more [[alt-right]] and nationalistic approach toward its agenda.<ref>{{cite news|title=Trump puts flame-throwing outsider on the inside|url=http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/2016/11/trump_puts_flame_throwing_outsider_on_the_inside|agency=Boston Herald}}</ref> Bannon declared the website "the platform for the alt-right" in 2016.<ref name="Posner2016"/> Bannon identifies as a [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]].<ref name="NYT1" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/05/24/rage-machine |title=Rage Machine |last=Mead |first=Rebecca |work=[[The New Yorker]] |date=May 24, 2010 |accessdate=October 20, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/conservatives-cpac-2014/story?id=22792609#7 |title=Conservatives to know at CPAC 2014 |last=Phillip |first=Abby |date=March 6, 2014 |publisher=[[ABC News]] |accessdate=October 20, 2015}}</ref> Speaking about his role at Breitbart, Bannon said: "We think of ourselves as virulently anti-establishment, particularly 'anti-' the permanent political class."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Farhi|first1=Paul|title=How Breitbart has become a dominant voice in conservative media |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/how-breitbart-has-become-a-dominant-voice-in-conservative-media/2016/01/27/a705cb88-befe-11e5-9443-7074c3645405_story.html |accessdate=February 15, 2016|work=The Washington Post|date=January 27, 2016}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' described Breitbart News under Bannon's leadership as a "curiosity of the fringe right wing", with "ideologically-driven journalists", that is a source of controversy "over material that has been called misogynist, xenophobic, and racist." The newspaper also noted how Breitbart was now a "potent voice" for [[Donald Trump]]'s presidential campaign.<ref name="PotentVoice">{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/27/business/media/breitbart-news-presidential-race.html|title=Breitbart Rises From Outlier to Potent Voice in Campaign|date=26 August 2016|newspaper=New York Times|accessdate=28 August 2016}}</ref> | |||