ANY program for conservative revival has to take into account the transfigured media. In the last decade, we have witnessed the decline of traditional news organizations and the rise of the new media. Obviously left-leaning but ostensibly objective broadcast networks and newspapers have lost market share to openly opinionated cable-news programs, talk-radio shows, blogs, and websites.
In an attempt to keep up, the declining but powerful traditional news organizations have become less objective, more attitudinal, and, correspondingly, more liberal. Straight-news reporters now clutter the front pages with opinionated “analysis” pieces; the paragons of objectivity at NBC News moonlight as sharp-edged commentators on that network’s partisan cable cousin.
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