Nice deflection there Samuel Clemens, but none of what you just wrote has anything at all to do with Rush “pioneering new media”. The only media you mention is talk radio, which is Old Media.
“Rush Limbaugh pioneered his format of entertaining and politically educating talk radio in the late 1980’s.”
The same field that Joe Pyne, Bob Grant, George Putnam, Ray Briem, and others had developed as early as 1950.
You persist in ignoring the obvious.
Talk radio as a conservative media force did not exist in the 60-80s until Rush pioneered his show.
Conservative talk radio could not because of the “fairness doctrine”.
No one has had the impact that Rush Limbaugh has had in the field. Not. Even. Close.
He is, literally, credited with “saving” AM radio.
http://www.radiohof.org/rush_limbaugh.htm
He is part of the new media because he broke the hold on information dissemination that the Establismend media held.
“New media” is not only a technological advance. It is a way to move information around the gatekeepers who controlled the information flow in the Establishment media. The “fairness doctrine” was part of that control.