What gap is The Daily Caller trying to fill online?
Tucker Carlson: There’s been a net loss of reporters over the past 18 months. Huge numbers of journalists have been laid off. Some of them have migrated online from traditional media but a lot of them haven’t. There are just a lot fewer journalists than there were pretty recently, and that’s bad, so we’re just trying to add a few more to the sum total. What’s wrong with political coverage these days? The decline in the number of journalists has coincided with an increase in the number of things government is doing and trying to do. So, whether you like it or not (you can) still acknowledge that (the Obama program) is very ambitious and therefore significant and important and worth knowing about and there are fewer people writing about it. There are entire initiatives or proposed initiatives that don’t get any coverage in the mainstream press. Even those issues that do get coverage are covered in pretty basic ways sometimes. I don’t like to whine about the press partly because I’ve been
