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Today, fresh off his successful "Restoring Honor" rally over the weekend, the Fox News personality launched his new "news, information, and opinion" website The Blaze, leading with the following video expose. It covers Ricardo Dominguez, a University of California, San Diego professor who retrofits cheap cell phones with a simple GPS application to help save the lives of illegal immigrants crossing a perilous stretch of desert between Mexico and the United States.
It's an important story, no doubt. So important, in fact, that Surge Desk encourages you to learn more about it by reading the AOL News coverage of Dominguez and his "Transborder Immigrant Tool" from December.
The fact that his report comes so late may be seen as a bit of a false-start from the site, especially since in his introductory message, Beck wrote that The Blaze will focus at least in part on "breaking news" and "current news." However, it may fit in line with his more overall goal of highlighting stories largely ignored or misreported by more established media organizations.
"Too many important stories are overlooked," Beck added. "And too many times we see mainstream media outlets distorting facts to fit rigid agendas. Not that you've ever heard me complain about the media before. Okay, maybe once or twice."
Here's more on Beck discussing The Blaze:
While Beck describes naming the site "The Blaze" as a tribute to the image of a flame standing for a "burning truth," some (especially marijuana users *cough, cough*) are scoffing at the name. To blaze, of course, is considered common slang for smoking marijuana, as the Urban Dictionary observes.
Perhaps, however, judging by Beck's position on cannabis legalization as expressed in the following video, the name can have multiple meanings:
The fact that his report comes so late may be seen as a bit of a false-start from the site, especially since in his introductory message, Beck wrote that The Blaze will focus at least in part on "breaking news" and "current news." However, it may fit in line with his more overall goal of highlighting stories largely ignored or misreported by more established media organizations.
"Too many important stories are overlooked," Beck added. "And too many times we see mainstream media outlets distorting facts to fit rigid agendas. Not that you've ever heard me complain about the media before. Okay, maybe once or twice."
Here's more on Beck discussing The Blaze:
While Beck describes naming the site "The Blaze" as a tribute to the image of a flame standing for a "burning truth," some (especially marijuana users *cough, cough*) are scoffing at the name. To blaze, of course, is considered common slang for smoking marijuana, as the Urban Dictionary observes.
Perhaps, however, judging by Beck's position on cannabis legalization as expressed in the following video, the name can have multiple meanings:
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