> the little coverage they received in the mainstream media, but how much
> the not-so-large tea party movement has comparably influenced the national
> debate. Is it simply a matter of them having the vocal backing of an
> entire wing of bourgeois politics and having Fox News as an outlet?
Fox is a useful villain, but the problem is systemic. 95% of US TV programming is controlled by this gang:
http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart/main
And the Big Six are chasing after their share of $500 billion in annual advertising expenditure. Fox could stop broadcasting tomorrow, but nothing would change.
The only solution: build the digital commons, pixel by pixel.
-- DRR