Breitbart's Low-Profile Editor: Bias Is in Story Selection

Even those with more than a passing familiarity to Breitbart News might be hard pressed to name its editor. 

That is intentional, explains a New York Times Magazine feature on 31-year-old Alex Marlow. He has been Breitbart's editor for four years now and keeps a low profile, even among staffers. Before the Times article, for which he gave Wil S. Hylton multiple interviews, Marlow's main foray into the spotlight was an appearance on Bill Maher's show. (Video of that interview is here.) In fact, the appearance crystallizes Marlow's unusual situation, writes Hylton. 

Afterward, he was pilloried on the left because, during the "overtime" part of the show, a counterterrorism expert said a "fake" story about him at Breitbart led to death threats and demanded an apology. But Marlow also got pilloried on the right for telling Maher that Russia had indeed meddled in the election.

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