[lbo-talk] Signs of the times

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 12:55:33 PDT 2009


Nope. But creating an audience for it does. Ask anyone in the "alternative media."

SA

wrobert at uci.edu wrote:


> Watching a television program does not constitute a political movement.
> robert wood
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>> 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.
>>
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