[lbo-talk] Signs of the times

[SA]

wrobert at uci.edu wrote:
> I think the thing that gets lost in the conversation is
> actually how small these demonstrations were (from the beginning) given
> the kind of financial power and media access the organizers had to put
> them together.  This is not to say that they weren't successful in
> creating a spectacle, but it certainly isn't a movement. 

Sure it's a movement. How do you think they got that kind of media 
access and financial power? By creating a strong conservative movement. 
You can bring the Fox to cable but you can't make people watch it. If a 
left-wing Fox News materialized - especially one as far left as Fox is 
far right - no one would watch it. Compare Olbermann/Maddow's ratings to 
O'Reilly's. Compare Rush Limbaugh's ratings to whoever the top left talk 
radio star is. Forty years ago, believe it or not, the right wing was 
*for* the Fairness Doctrine, because they said it was the only thing 
preventing total liberal domination of the airwaves.

SA