2010年，塔克·卡尔森联合创办《每日呼叫者》时，旨在打造共和党版的《纽约时报》。
The News When Tucker Carlson co-founded the Daily Caller in 2010, it was to be the Republican Party’s answer to The New York Times.
几次身份危机后，该媒体追随卡尔森的步伐，对唐纳德·特朗普在伊朗的战争以及对以色列的立场做出了强硬转向——这些选择为该刊注入了新在线右翼的数字活力，却也让它失去了部分资助者的支持。
A few identity crises later, the publication has followed Carlson into a hard turn against Donald Trump’s war in Iran, and against Israel — choices that have injected into the publication the digital energy of the new online right, and cost it the support of some of its backers.
《每日呼叫者》出版人尼尔·帕特尔告诉Semafor：“我遇到过一些最激进的捐赠者施压——这是我在新闻界20年里见过的、针对单一议题最激进的捐赠者施压。”他不愿透露《呼叫者》因失去财务支持而付出的代价，该媒体旗下既有营利性公司，也有非营利性的《每日呼叫者新闻基金会》，但他承认确实产生了成本。
“I’ve had some of the most aggressive donor pressure over this — the single most aggressive donor pressure over this, of anything I’ve seen in journalism in 20 years,” Daily Caller publisher Neil Patel told Semafor. He wouldn’t detail the cost of lost financial support to the Caller, which includes both a for-profit firm and the nonprofit Daily Caller News Foundation, but acknowledged that there had been costs.
自创办以来，《呼叫者》一直是华盛顿保守派媒体界的支柱，是共和党内部冲突中的重要声音，也是新闻人才的输送管道，其校友遍布保守派和主流媒体。如今，它正处于卡尔森帮助引爆的共和党内战的前沿。
The Caller has been a pillar of Washington’s conservative media scene since its launch, an important voice in internecine Republican conflicts and a pipeline of journalistic talent whose alumni include employees of both conservative and mainstream outlets. Now it’s at the vanguard of a Republican civil war that Carlson has helped unleash.
“伊朗战争是保守运动的一个巨大转折点，”总编辑安伯·杜克周五告诉Semafor。
“The Iran war is a huge turning point for the conservative movement,” Editor-in-Chief Amber Duke told Semafor on Friday.
自美国2月卷入伊朗战争以来，该媒体在X平台上的动态最能体现这一转变。该机构开始每天推文发布柴油价格，强调战争对司机的成本影响，并转发特朗普关于伊朗战争的帖子截图，配上辛辣的评论。
Nowhere has that shift been clearer than in the outlet’s X feed since the United States went to war with Iran in February. The organization has taken to tweeting the price of diesel every day, emphasizing the war’s cost on drivers, and posts screenshots of Trump’s posts about the war in Iran, adding spicy commentary.
“与其‘禁用’一个词，不如我们停止在海外战争上花费无穷无尽的资金，这会怎样？”该媒体针对特朗普要求将人工智能称为“超级智能”写道。《每日呼叫者》同样抨击以色列，质疑其在中东的决策。它猛烈抨击本雅明·内塔尼亚胡及其政策，并反复强调以色列定居者的暴力行为，特别是针对儿童的暴力。这些批评引起了亲以色列鹰派人士的注意，他们指责该出版物反犹太主义，并粗鲁地暗示它是亲伊斯兰宣传。
“What if instead of “banning” a term, we stopped spending endless amounts of money on foreign wars?” the outlet wrote of Trump’s command that AI be referred to as “super intelligence.”The Daily Caller has similarly gone after Israel, questioning its decisions in the Middle East. It has blasted Benjamin Netanyahu and his policies, and repeatedly highlighted Israeli settler violence, particularly against children. The criticism has gotten the attention of pro-Israel hawks, who have accused the publication of antisemitism and crudely implied it is pro-Islamic propaganda.
“《每日呼叫者》用阿拉伯语的意思就是半岛电视台，”福克斯新闻主持人兼评论员马克·莱文写道。
“Daily Caller means Al Jazeera in Arabic,” Fox News host and commentator Mark Levin wrote.
据我上周采访的九名现任和前任《每日呼叫者》员工中的大多数人称，去年9月活动家查理·柯克遇刺身亡后，《呼叫者》内部——以及更广泛的保守派运动——的裂痕开始扩大。原本围绕唐纳德·特朗普团结一致的运动陷入了一场毫无根据的阴谋论狂欢，许多人将柯克的死归咎于以色列。
The fissures at the Caller — and in the broader conservative movement — began widening when the activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated last September, according to most of the nine current and former Caller employees who I spoke to over the last week. The movement that had united around Donald Trump devolved into a frenzy of unfounded conspiracy theories, many blaming Israel for Kirk’s death.
播客主持人坎迪斯·欧文斯推动了这些理论，激怒了她的前雇主、《每日连线》创始人本·夏皮罗。夏皮罗严厉指责欧文斯传播他所谓的反犹太主义阴谋论，抨击播客主持人梅根·凯利未谴责欧文斯，并批评卡尔森对自称白人至上主义者尼克·富恩特斯进行了他所谓的“亲密采访”。
The podcaster Candace Owens drove those theories, infuriating her former employer, Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro. Shapiro laid into Owens for perpetuating what he said were antisemitic conspiracy theories, attacked podcaster Megyn Kelly for not condemning Owens, and criticized Carlson for what he described as a cozy interview with self-proclaimed white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
《每日呼叫者》长期以来比《华盛顿观察家报》、《国家评论》甚至《布赖特巴特新闻网》等其他右倾出版物更年轻、略显前卫，它顺应了这种网络舆论风向。一些员工指出，前编辑迪伦·豪斯曼在伊朗战争爆发前的那个周五离开了该出版物，在他离职后基调发生了显著变化。前《呼叫者》员工杜克接替了他，并鼓励该出版物在社交媒体上采取激进姿态。
The Daily Caller, long a younger and slightly edgier outlet than other right-leaning publications like the Washington Examiner, The National Review, or even Breitbart, followed that online energy. Some on staff noted that former editor Dylan Housman left the publication the Friday before the Iran war started, and the tone shifted significantly following his departure. Duke, a former Caller staffer, replaced him and encouraged the publication to adopt an aggressive posture on social media.
员工们还表示，他们感觉帕特尔似乎站在卡尔森一边，帕特尔是卡尔森的老朋友兼商业伙伴。虽然卡尔森早已与该媒体没有隶属关系，但帕特尔仍与卡尔森保持商业联系，而卡尔森的弟弟巴克利·卡尔森曾在《每日来电者》非营利组织的董事会任职。
Employees also said they sensed that Patel seemed to side with Carlson, Patel’s longtime friend and business partner. While Carlson has long been unaffiliated with the outlet, Patel retains business connections with Carlson, while Carlson’s brother Buckley Carlson has served on the Daily Caller nonprofit’s board.
帕特尔告诉《Semafor》，他不参与《来电者》的日常运营，这方面他听从杜克等人的安排，并强调卡尔森的立场对该媒体没有影响。
Patel told Semafor he is not involved in day-to-day operations at the Caller, on which he defers to Duke and others, and stressed that Carlson’s stances had no bearing on the outlet.
不过，他说他鼓励《来电者》的领导层保持独立，并反映该出版物的价值观。他说，对普通美国人而言，现实已转而对特朗普不利。
Still, he said he encouraged the Caller’s leaders to remain independent and reflect the publication’s values. That reality for average Americans, he said, has turned against Trump.
“如今情况就是不太妙。我认为如果你哪怕稍微客观地看待这件事，也很难论证在许多领域情况都很棒。所以如果我们的报道有所改变，我认为那只是为了反映这一现实，”他说。
“Things just aren’t going that well today. I think if you’re at all looking at this objectively, it’s hard to make the case that things are going great in a lot of areas. And so if our coverage has changed, I think it’s changed just to reflect that,” he said.
右派内部之争 当然，担忧在于这是否会走得太远。一些《每日来电者》前员工告诉《Semafor》，他们担心该出版物已有些过于接近右翼的“格罗珀”派系，该派系对以色列的批评反映了其反犹太主义。
Right vs. Right The concern, of course, is whether it could go too far. Some former Daily Caller staff told Semafor they are worried the publication has drifted a bit too close to the “groyper” wing of the right, whose criticism of Israel reflects its antisemitism.
10月，Semafor报道称，《每日呼叫者》发布了一幅漫画，画中比尔·盖茨和魔鬼与名誉扫地的金融家杰弗里·爱泼斯坦摆姿势，爱泼斯坦身穿印有以色列国旗图案的三角泳裤。该帖子迅速被删除，但已引起共和党人关注，他们对《每日呼叫者》转向反以色列立场日感担忧。该出版物告诉Semafor，虽然该帖子不符合出版标准，但并非出于“恶意”。
In October, Semafor reported that the Daily Caller tweeted a cartoon of Bill Gates and the devil posing with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein wearing an Israeli flag Speedo. The post was quickly deleted, but not before it caught the attention of Republicans who have grown increasingly concerned about the Caller’s anti-Israel turn. The publication told Semafor that while the post didn’t meet the publication’s standards, it hadn’t been posted with any “malicious intent.”
其他《每日呼叫者》校友向Semafor表示，最近的转向可能威胁到过去十年间已成为右翼重要人才输送渠道和孵化器的地位。《每日呼叫者》培养出美国一些最知名的年轻政治媒体人物，其中一些人已离开保守派媒体圈（如CNN的凯特兰·柯林斯和Semafor的谢尔比·塔尔科特），另一些人则在独立媒体建立了大型平台（如《打破僵局》的萨加尔·恩杰蒂）或进入共和党体系任职。上一代人明显对新生代感到不安。
Other Caller alumni suggested to Semafor that the recent pivot could threaten what in the last decade has become an important talent pipeline and incubator for the right. The Daily Caller has brought up some of the most prominent young political media figures in America, some of whom have left the conservative media sphere (like CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and Semafor’s Shelby Talcott), and others who have built major franchises in independent media (like Breaking Points’ Saagar Enjeti) or moved into positions within the Republican Party apparatus. The previous generation’s crowd is clearly uneasy with the new crop.
马克斯的观点：《每日呼叫者》显然正为中期选举后乃至特朗普时代之后的格局，以及一场激烈且升级的党内媒体之战做定位。
Max’s view The Daily Caller is clearly positioning itself for a landscape not just post-midterms but post- Trump, and for a bitter and intensifying intra-party media battle.
关于双方如何谈论伊朗战争和以色列问题，在两党内部均有体现，周日即可见一斑：前密歇根州民主党参议员候选人、众议员海利·史蒂文斯背书该选区共和党候选人而非民主党提名人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德，理由是后者在谴责反犹太主义方面做得不够。
The issue of how each side talks about Israel and the war in Iran has played out in both parties, as was clear on Sunday when Rep. Haley Stevens, the former Michigan Democrat Senate candidate, endorsed the Republican in the race over the Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, citing her view that he had not done enough to condemn antisemitism.
虽然以色列问题受到大量关注，《每日呼叫者》在其他议题上也采取了背离共和党正统的立场。该出版物刊发文章批评人工智能的影响，以及商业利益与特朗普政府的亲密关系。它最近还与《每日连线》发生争执，嘲讽后者为卡尔希辩护。
While Israel has garnered much of the attention, the Caller has taken stances against Republican Party orthodoxy on other issues. The publication has published critical pieces about the impact of artificial intelligence and the coziness between business interests and the Trump administration. It recently feuded with The Daily Wire, mocking the company for defending Kalshi.
“我一直说，我们能为年轻男性做的最好的事，就是让他们染上毁灭性的赌博习惯。很高兴本也懂这套，”《每日来电》撰稿人阿德里埃尔·冈萨雷斯写道。
“I’ve always said the best thing we can do for young men is introduce them to crippling gambling habits. Glad Ben gets it too,” Caller writer Adriel Gonzalez wrote.
《每日来电》失去捐助者，暴露了这一做法的赌博性质有多大。对于可能没有密切关注的读者来说，看到一个曾将大量产出用于批评海湾国家和反犹太主义的媒体，突然花费更多时间报道海湾国家官方媒体也在关注的一些相同话题，可能会感到惊讶。
The Caller’s loss of donors exposes how much of a gamble this has been. For readers who may not have been paying close attention, it may be surprising to see an outlet that once dedicated much of its output to criticizing the Gulf states and antisemitism suddenly spending more of its time covering some of the same topics as state outlets in the Gulf.
这一转型也发生在受众流量岌岌可危的时刻。一位知情人士告诉《Semafor》，这家长期依靠产生大量网络流量的出版物，经历了其他数字新闻网站近年来遭遇的那种陡峭下滑，这很可能是由新用户习惯和技术变革共同驱动的。虽然《每日来电》押注其做法将赢得下一代用户，但其新的“基于推文”策略也可能疏远部分老受众。
The shift also comes at a precarious time for audience traffic. One person told Semafor that the publication, which has long relied on generating a large volume of web traffic, has experienced the kind of steep declines other digital news sites have suffered in recent years, likely driven by a combination of new user habits and technological changes. While the Caller is betting its approach will win over the next generation of users, its new “based tweets” strategy could also be alienating some portion of the old audience.
观点不一 主编杜克认为，该出版物反映了美国年轻媒体消费者的去向。她告诉《Semafor》，受众在TikTok和Instagram等算法驱动平台上快速增长，其反战、反腐败内容产生了共鸣。
Room for Disagreement Duke, the editor-in-chief, argues the publication reflects where younger American media consumers are heading. She told Semafor the audience is rapidly growing on algorithmically driven platforms like TikTok and Instagram, where its anti-war, anti-corruption content is resonating.
杜克强调，尽管其批评特朗普和以色列备受关注，《每日来电》仍将大量精力投向左派、自由派和民主党人。她辩称，《每日来电》在特朗普第一任期内曾发表过批评他的文章，并在其第二任期第一年因他在移民执法上不够彻底而提出批评。
Duke emphasized that for all the attention that its criticism of Trump and Israel gets, the Caller dedicates much of its attention to the left, liberals, and Democrats. She argued that the Daily Caller had published negative pieces about Trump during his first term, and had been critical during the first year of his second term for not going far enough on immigration enforcement.
值得关注 《Semafor》的本·史密斯介绍了右翼的另一新动向：一个名为“美国时刻”的青年运动。
Notable Semafor’s Ben Smith profiled another new development on the right: a youth movement called American Moment.