High-profile blogger and web publisher Andrew Breitbart, the lead defendant in a closely-watched defamation lawsuit in Washington, died early this morning in Los Angeles, according to a statement posted on the website for his company, Big Journalism.
Big Journalism editor and in-house counsel Joel Pollack said in a phone interview this morning that Breitbart’s death will not affect the defense against a defamation lawsuit brought against Breitbart and a colleague by former U.S. Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod.
