The MSM (New York - DC Media Complex) is losing readers and viewers year over year. They are in decline.
Here’s an info nugget for you to ponder. In 2008-2009 during the financial collapse a lot of newspapers and media outlets came to Washington with their hands out pleading that they should receive a bailout because of their importance to the social infrastructure. There were also many calls for the return of the Fairness doctrine. Not one conservative media outlet asked for a bailout or subsidy. One award winning CNN reporter exposed a story that CNN was paid to spike stories and to broadcast paid-for lies.
My sister is a reporter for the Wall St. Journal and has often published on the front page. She asked me a couple of months back for ideas on how the WSJ could reach more readers and internet viewers. Her husband is a reporter for the Boston Globe. Both are aghast that the Washington Post and the NY Times were sold for a fraction of their market value just 10 years earlier. They are sensing the decline.
The field of mainstream journalism is unstable and the liberal voices grow more shrill and less credible. People are waking up including the low info voter types because of the lies of Obamacare.
History repeats. All it takes is for one or two major lies to get exposed and the whole media complex comes off the tracks. It happened in the Soviet Union and it is happening here.
Sure the Media Complex seems to wield considerable power and they do. But they are declining. Once they lose viewers and readers to other persuasions, they are lost forever unless the liberal media outlet changes its delivery and perspective. But once a viewer or reader discovers a conservative outlet they stick to it.
There is competition and the long trend favors conservatives. Conservatives are winning.
But that's the problem...the nos. of low info voters grows every year. A lot more people easily led by lib demagogues. And although a decreasing subscriber list for lib papers might be seen as a positive sigh, that just might mean older libs are dying out, and younger libs just don't read any news. But when a lib demagogue gets on tv and promises them the world, they listen attentively. I have a very pessimistic view of the future.