Breitbart helped launch the Huffington Post. He has worked for the Drudge Report and wrote several books, including "Hollywood Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon -- the Case Against Celebrity." He launched Breitbart.com in 2005, later adding a series of "subsites," including BigGovernment.com, to counter what he saw as liberal bias in the media.
In 2010, Shirley Sherrod filed a defamation suit against Breitbart, alleging that the conservative gadfly triggered her firing from the Agriculture Department by the Obama administration and ignited a national debate on race and reverse discrimination.
The Times' Robin Abcarian visited his office in West Los Angeles in 2010. "The command center of Andrew Breitbart's growing media empire is a suite of offices on Sawtelle Boulevard in West Los Angeles with the temporary feel of a campaign office. Only the computers seem firmly anchored."
I expect the conspiracy theorists to conclude he died of something more sinister.
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Children's author Jan Berenstain, 88, best remembered for creating the Berenstain Bears series of books:
The Berenstain Bears books have offered parents and their young children guidance, comfort and old-fashioned humor about perennial issues such as fear of the dentist, dealing with bullies and resolving sibling rivalries since the first book was published 50 years ago._____
Some 300 titles and 260 million copies later, the series featuring bumbling Papa Bear, practical Mama Bear and their children, Brother and Sister Bear, who live together in a multi-story treehouse, still resonates in families with pre-schoolers.
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