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You’re right. Although i do think a message has already been sent but it has been largely ignored, with many in media willing to take a financial hit in order to continue to wield their power and wage their war on the right. Look at CNN. They have dramatically declined in the last decade and yet continue to try to fix things by bringing in one news chief after another who is a committed lefty. Never have they said “gee, you know, we do have a problem, we do a liberally dominated workforce here and it hurts both our objectivity as well as our viewership numbers....so we really ought to try to change the culture here, perhaps starting with bringing in an at least somewhat conservative news chief.”

But no, they don’t do that. Not CNN, not CBS, not Time magazine, not the NY Times. They know that a significant number of potential viewers are hungering for non-lefty news outlets but they refuse to give in even while they keep handing out pink slips.

That’s why i believe it’s going to take more than just tuning them out. The fat cats who run things can handle a cut in salary, for they’ll still be fat cats living the good life. It’s going to take a movement they hits them where it really hurts them - and that’s in shattering the myth that they are by-and-large objective bystanders or at least striving mightily to be so.

Shatter that and a lot of their influence is broken as well. And the time to do this is during a presidential year when people are following the news more closely and want to be given it straight, not slanted to a ridiculous degree. Perhaps some 501 type groups could run a spate of ads along the lines of: “Did you know the 89% of the media voted for Clinton 20 years ago? That 90% voted for Obama? Did you know about Journolist? A private leftwing forum where journalists traded ideas on how to protect liberal politicians and attack conservatives. Can you really trust the media to cover both sides fairly?”