A Weblog of Centrist Voices in American Politics
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November 12, 2003A Conservative Says 'We're Not Losing'Conservatives are catching up with liberals in terms of media power,according to an article in the City Journal The Left’s near monopoly over the institutions of opinion and information—which long allowed liberal opinion makers to sweep aside ideas and beliefs they disagreed with, as if they were beneath argument—is skidding to a startlingly swift halt. The transformation has gone far beyond the rise of conservative talk radio, that, ever since Rush Limbaugh’s debut 15 years ago, has chipped away at the power of the New York Times, the networks, and the rest of the elite media to set the terms of the nation’s political and cultural debate. Almost overnight, three huge changes in communications have injected conservative ideas right into the heart of that debate. Though commentators have noted each of these changes separately, they haven’t sufficiently grasped how, taken together, they add up to a revolution: no longer can the Left keep conservative views out of the mainstream or dismiss them with bromide instead of argument.Posted by rickheller at November 12, 2003 10:05 PM Comments
I read that article you linked to. I wouldn't be surprised if it generates some conservative "not so fasts," as they view continued progress in this area to continuing antipathy towards the monolithic and widespread liberal media. Conservative strategists wouldn't want this guy killing the buzz. That said, I thought his "big 3" hypothesis was week, because it's really a big one, and a couple of less clear developments. For those who haven;'t checked it out, the big 3 developments for conservative media were Fox News, South Park, and Dennis Miller. Fox is of course the obvious big one, and no quarrel there. But I think whether a conservative sees south park as a plus depends on what kind of a conservative you are. I work at a place that's crawling with urban liberals, and it was pretty amusing to see their horror and denial when it was suggested that South Park had a GOP flavor. Andrew Sullivan has talked about SP republicans on several occasions, and I think this is on the mark as far as it goes. It's hard not to note that there's a pretty large segment of GOP loyalists that finds South Park appalling, that being religious conservatives. Along with some other trends, like Catholics becoming more Republican, it suggests to me that at some point the GOP is going to be unable to stand prosperity. I expect that the libertarian-leaning might be driven from the party. Posted by: bk at November 13, 2003 07:41 PM |
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