Wednesday, September 01, 2004

This will cheer you even more

The American Thinker on the decline of the liberal media.
Now that the broadcast networks have in effect abdicated broadcasting the conventions, save for one hour a night, this means that the American audience for politics is no longer being spoon-fed a liberal-only line of analysis. Convention coverage, other than on C-SPAN, is full of talking heads commenting on politics - in effect a rolling seminar of political analysis.
FNC's upward trajectory continues, and it is clearly frightening the left. Demonstrators in New York City are attacking Fox News nearly as much as they attack President Bush.

AND,
The presidential election of 2004 is shaping up as a turning point for both politics and the media structure. The old media are rightly fearful of losing the control they once exercised over the political conversation. But they have already lost it. The dominant response has been to attack the legitimacy of their robust and growing competitors – talk radio, Fox News Channel, and the blogosphere (in the chronological order they appeared on the scene).

Read it all.

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