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By TexanForever  Comments: 19334, member since Thu Jun 10, 2004On Mon Feb 06, 2012 03:11 PM
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February 6, 2012
If Fox Fails Us
By Bruce Walker
Over the last decade, conservatives have enjoyed Fox News, a national news network which has given conservatives a fair shake and which has been willing to expose the bigotry of the establishment media towards conservatism. Yet there is the chance that Fox News, when owner Rupert Murdoch dies, may drift towards the lockstep leftism so characteristic of other news networks.
Fortunately, for a couple of reasons, we need not fret too much if this does happen.
Mass communications, including network news, is driven in part by market forces. We should not overestimate this influence. If ideological competition operated in the area of network news, academia, or other parts of the communication and education domains, then half of the colleges would be overtly conservative, and most of the big newspapers and magazines would be conservative, and Hollywood would produce lots of films that exalt the values we share.
In fact, it is not Adam Smith's supply and demand or Milton Friedman's free markets which hold sway in these fields as much as Lenin's "party line" and Orwell's groupthink. That is why the major news networks never expose the bias of their rivals even though that would win many viewers. But market shares have on three occasions pushed news networks into becoming more attractive to conservative viewers.
Fox News, of course, is the most recent and significant example, but twice before Fox News, broadcasting networks tried to pry disgusted conservative audiences away from the party line competitors. CNN, when launched in 1980, aired shows like Crossfire and Capital Gang, which had an equal number of conservatives and liberals presenting their arguments. This was utterly new (except for limp PBS sop like Washington Week in Review). CNN also gave us Lou Dobbs' Moneyline, a national program which ran from 1980 to 2009, and Evans and Novak -- tame stuff today, but at the time, this was a palpable shift.
In the decade before CNN, ABC News also experimented with a modest sprinkling of conservative thought. Howard K. Smith was a leftist for much of his career, but he drifted perceptibly to the right in his last decade of broadcasting. His co-host of World News Tonight was Harry Reasoner, who had run for office as a Republican in Minnesota. Other familiar faces now on Fox News got their break in national news reporting at ABC News: Brit Hume, John Stossel, and Chris Wallace.
Cable television creates a vastly more competitive environment than television had in the days of ABC News, so if no network presents news in a way that does not offend the tens of millions of conservative viewers, some savvy businessmen will create a new network.
The second reason why conservatives can survive the end of Fox News as we know it is because conservatives have proven to be expert communications guerrillas. In 1964, Phyllis Schlafly wrote and published through a very small press a history of Republican nominations, A Choice, Not an Echo. The leftist media ignored the book, but conservatives spread the word and millions of copies, with hundreds of thousands before the California primary, likely swinging the state (and the nomination) to Goldwater. Schlafly proved that conservative books could utterly outflank the staid, dreary army of leftist book reviewers or the censorious condemnation of leftist punditry. Nimble, alert conservative guerrillas could get our message by outsmarting the left.
A few years after Schlafly, Richard Viguerie again transformed American politics by using direct mail to contact targeted audiences of conservatives, both to inform these conservatives about what was really happening in America and to raise, through modest but meaningful donations to particular conservative organizations and campaigns, the funds to operate. Viguerie collected mailing lists and identified conservatives who were, for example, highly motivated pro-life Americans or who grasped how government regulations crushes small businesses.
The next decade presented conservatives with another genius of conservative propagation: Rush Limbaugh. Rush knew the AM radio business inside-out, and he also had a Churchillian indifference to the loud, angry threats of the left's bully-boys. Conservatives now almost own talk radio.
It is also vital to grasp that Schlafly and Viguerie, like Rush, are very much part of the conservative movement today. All three, of course, knew the venom that leftists would spew at them, but real conviction based upon personal reflection was the bedrock of their values, and losing popularity contests manufactured by the left has not bothered them at all.
The internet promises to be the next wave of conservative media, and the rise of timely and thoughtful conservative internet periodicals (like the one you are reading now) has already found a vast audience which outflanks the leftist tin soldiers at every turn. What happens if Fox News fails us? Using our wits, our moxie, and fidelity to truth, we will be just fine.
www.americanthinker.com . . .
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By Bat2 Comments: 2525, member since Wed May 25, 2011On Mon Feb 06, 2012 03:14 PM
 Fox is eternal. |  re: If Fox Fails Us en>fr fr>en
By Johnny_Ola Comments: 8418, member since Sat Apr 28, 2007On Mon Feb 06, 2012 03:32 PM
Real news networks shouldn't have an ideology, left or right. Currently we have no real news networks in USA unless you count C-SPAN. |  re: If Fox Fails Us (karma: 1)
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By PopsFrost Comments: 10159, member since Mon Jan 21, 2008On Mon Feb 06, 2012 03:52 PM
Fox News is not right wing. Nor are they a great new source.
They are attacked as 'right wing' because they haven't always spouted the liberal party line. |  re: If Fox Fails Us (karma: 1)
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By Lily42 Comments: 7059, member since Mon Jul 26, 2004On Mon Feb 06, 2012 04:07 PM
Edited by Lily42 (74791) on 2012-02-06 16:11:34
TexanForever wrote:
The second reason why conservatives can survive the end of Fox News as we know it is because conservatives have proven to be expert communications guerrillas. In 1964, Phyllis Schlafly wrote and published through a very small press a history of Republican nominations, A Choice, Not an Echo. The leftist media ignored the book, but conservatives spread the word and millions of copies, with hundreds of thousands before the California primary, likely swinging the state (and the nomination) to Goldwater. Schlafly proved that conservative books could utterly outflank the staid, dreary army of leftist book reviewers or the censorious condemnation of leftist punditry. Nimble, alert conservative guerrillas could get our message by outsmarting the left.
Indeed ! Better yet, Phyllis Schlafly's succession is assured ! Her prodigy son, Andrew Schlafly, in the spirit of expert guerrilla communication and using modern technology, spawned Conservapedia, the laughing stock of the Internet an encyclopedia free of liberal lies and deceit ! Bright days ahead for the bible thumping crowd thanks to the Schlafly dynasty !
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Learn something conservative today thanks to Conservapedia !
Did you know that the scientific evidence points to the Earth being about 6000 years old ?
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By unclebernie Comments: 5211, member since Mon Feb 28, 2005On Mon Feb 06, 2012 04:25 PM
the fourth estate is dead and lily is a lunatic...both true |  re: If Fox Fails Us (karma: 3)
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By chevy Comments: 8571, member since Tue Nov 16, 2004On Mon Feb 06, 2012 04:27 PM
Lily69 wrote:
TexanForever wrote:
The second reason why conservatives can survive the end of Fox News as we know it is because conservatives have proven to be expert communications guerrillas. In 1964, Phyllis Schlafly wrote and published through a very small press a history of Republican nominations, A Choice, Not an Echo. The leftist media ignored the book, but conservatives spread the word and millions of copies, with hundreds of thousands before the California primary, likely swinging the state (and the nomination) to Goldwater. Schlafly proved that conservative books could utterly outflank the staid, dreary army of leftist book reviewers or the censorious condemnation of leftist punditry. Nimble, alert conservative guerrillas could get our message by outsmarting the left.
Indeed ! Better yet, Phyllis Schlafly's succession is assured ! Her prodigy son, Andrew Schlafly, in the spirit of expert guerrilla communication and using modern technology, spawned Conservapedia, the laughing stock of the Internet an encyclopedia free of liberal lies and deceit ! Bright days ahead for the bible thumping crowd thanks to the Schlafly dynasty !
Edit:
Learn something conservative today thanks to Conservapedia !
Did you know that the scientific evidence points to the Earth being about 6000 years old ?
For someone that still has their head stuck up Al Gores ass you type pretty good. |  re: If Fox Fails Us en>fr fr>en
By LTKilling Comments: 7760, member since Sun Aug 14, 2005On Mon Feb 06, 2012 04:53 PM
DIE
all of you
COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARIES
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By NOZZLE Comments: 13724, member since Mon Mar 07, 2005On Mon Feb 06, 2012 05:05 PM
PopsFrost wrote:
Fox News is not right wing. Nor are they a great new source.
They are attacked as 'right wing' because they haven't always spouted the liberal party line.
I saw some incredible shit on FaxNews this morning, some cunt was explaining that the drop in labor force participation had nothing to do with reality and everything to do with how the census now counts people versus how it counted them before.
That is a democrat talking point cooke up to explain obango's failures, PERIOD. |  re: If Fox Fails Us (karma: 1)
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By geebart Comments: 7045, member since Fri Jun 16, 2006On Mon Feb 06, 2012 05:13 PM
Lily42 wrote:
TexanForever wrote:
The second reason why conservatives can survive the end of Fox News as we know it is because conservatives have proven to be expert communications guerrillas. In 1964, Phyllis Schlafly wrote and published through a very small press a history of Republican nominations, A Choice, Not an Echo. The leftist media ignored the book, but conservatives spread the word and millions of copies, with hundreds of thousands before the California primary, likely swinging the state (and the nomination) to Goldwater. Schlafly proved that conservative books could utterly outflank the staid, dreary army of leftist book reviewers or the censorious condemnation of leftist punditry. Nimble, alert conservative guerrillas could get our message by outsmarting the left.
Indeed ! Better yet, Phyllis Schlafly's succession is assured ! Her prodigy son, Andrew Schlafly, in the spirit of expert guerrilla communication and using modern technology, spawned Conservapedia, the laughing stock of the Internet an encyclopedia free of liberal lies and deceit ! Bright days ahead for the bible thumping crowd thanks to the Schlafly dynasty !
Edit:
Learn something conservative today thanks to Conservapedia !
Did you know that the scientific evidence points to the Earth being about 6000 years old ?
I hope a muslim insurgent violates every hole in your body some day. Perhaps your hideous liberal fem face will ward them off, but mooscums are known for having low standards. |  re: If Fox Fails Us (karma: 2)
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By BurnParis Comments: 27513, member since Thu Mar 13, 2003On Mon Feb 06, 2012 05:20 PM
geebart wrote:
I hope a muslim insurgent violates every hole in your body some day.
Oddly enough, so does Lily42. | |
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By MadRusski Comments: 39075, member since Mon Aug 16, 2004On Mon Feb 06, 2012 05:29 PM
Isn't it something when an esteemed Global Warming "scientist" ridicules somebody else's ignorance? LOL | re: If Fox Fails Us en>fr fr>en
By geebart Comments: 7045, member since Fri Jun 16, 2006On Mon Feb 06, 2012 07:21 PM
BurnParis wrote:
geebart wrote:
I hope a muslim insurgent violates every hole in your body some day.
Oddly enough, so does Lily42.
Oh definitely, its the dream of every liberal whore (well those that aren't closet racists) to be ravaged with third world cock. I bet laura logan will go back for a round two one of these days. |
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