Mediaite Names Worst In 2013 Media

Mediaite readers have named Michelle Malkin and Ben Shapiro as the worst personalities in the above formats. Plenty of progressives made the poll too. Hit the link for more.

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Michelle Malkin Sells Twitchy

The headline above is from Wonkette.  Over at Buzzfeed, they are more charitable.

Twitchy, the conservative Twitter aggregation site, has been sold for an undisclosed amount to Salem Communications, the Christian radio conglomerate and owners of Hotair.com and Townhall.com. Jonathan Garthwaite, general manager and editor-in-chief of Townhall.com, confirmed the news to BuzzFeed Tuesday, saying he was “excited” to be folding Twitchy into existing Salem news properties. “Media Matters types would like to paint conservatives as boring, old white guys,” Garthwaite said. “Twitchy adds more fun and humor to our platform, which will appeal to totally different generation and break that stereotype.”

Malkin claims that Twitchy is generating 12 million pages views a month with a staff of nine.

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