Alex Marlow: Sticking it to the mainstream media ‘meant so much’

At Breitbart, Election Day was about vindication.

Alex Marlow began Election Day by interviewing Donald Trump for Breitbart Radio.

Then he took the helm of Breitbart’s frontpage from his Central Park hotel room, where he watched the website reach a record-setting day of traffic.

{mosads}Early in the evening, Marlow placed a rare five-headline spread across the top of Breitbart trumpeting Reuters exit polls that found populist sentiments high as ballots were cast.

That story, Marlow recalls, was relentlessly mocked by the “blue check-marks” on Twitter — a term many on the right use to deride mainstream reporters with “verified” status on Twitter who they believe act as the gatekeepers of political discourse in Washington.

“It was ridiculed,” Marlow said. “The Columbia Journalism Review said we were living in an alternate universe.”

Hosting a radio broadcast later that night, Marlow saw the energy build as The New York Times’s election needle passed the 50 percent mark for Trump. Suddenly, it looked like Breitbart had been right all along.

“They work so hard and are attacked so often, so to stick it to the mainstream media, and CNN in particular, it meant so much because of what we’d been through,” Marlow said.