[BelegStrongbow]

I really can’t understand it actually. How can these outlets continue to publish? Are there really that many people eager and willing to spend $2/day (the NYT newstands price I saw last week) to be filled with this dreck? Are that many advertisers really that willing to be associated with anti-Americanism and, for that matter, inhumanity?

What makes it work??

[Verginius Rufus]

The big cities have lots of people who will always vote Democrat because either they have been convinced that Republicans hate people of their race, or else they fear that the Religious Right will come to power, outlaw all forms of fun and make people spend Sundays listening to 4-hour-long sermons in church.

The curious thing is the absence of a countervailing force--why aren't there any conservative-leaning big city papers or large-circulation magazines? Only the Wall Street Journal editorial page (not the news columns) has a large circulation and is conservative, but much of the public would never think of reading it.