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need to build institutions that
mirror those institutions,” Carlson
said. “That’s the truth.”
The truth didn’t go over too
well. Some attendees heckled
Carlson for suggesting that conservative media, in any way, should
follow the Gray Lady’s example.
“I wasn’t talking about thematic accuracy, which the Times
lacks,” Carlson said recently at a
midtown Manhattan hotel bar, a
few hours after finishing guesthosting duties on Fox & Friends
Weekend. “I meant, strictly speaking, grammatical accuracy, strictly
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speaking, factual accuracy.”
Reflecting on his remarks four
years earlier, Carlson said that the
“essential problem remains.”
“It’s really expensive to cover
the news and it’s much cheaper
to opine on the news,” explained
Carlson, who launched The Daily
Caller in 2010 and serves as its
editor-in-chief. For that reason,
he said, “people’s tendency will
always be to do the latter, just for
economic reasons.”
The Daily Caller has had some
successes in its three-year history,
including its coverage of the waste
and abuse within the Republican
National Committee. It also obtained leaked discussions from
Tucker
Carlson, the
editor-inchief of The
Daily Caller.