The New York metropolitan area is roughly 100 miles squared (1/3 of 1% of US territory) holds about 25 million people (8% of total) and produces a GDP of $2 trillion (11% of total).
It is the largest US metropolitan area, by far, but still at least 90% of the US is not New York.
Does New York exercise undue media & political influence?
Maybe, but that depends on your definitions of "New York", "media" and "undue influence".
Consider, does Mark Levin "broadcasting from the underground command post, deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker, somewhere under the brick and steel of a nondescript building" in New York constitute New York media?
What about Limbaugh broadcasting from Florida, Savage from San Francisco or Beck from Dallas?
They all go through New York at some point, so is that "undue influence"?
Oh but, you might say, far more people watch the Left's media than listen to conservatives like Levin, right?
And whose fault, exactly, is that, New York's?
And isn't the Left's media central Hollywood, not New York?
And how exactly did "New York" influence Republican Moore voters in Alabama or Saccone voters in Pittsburgh to stay home?
Did Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) or Paul Ryan (Wisconsin) broadcast secretly from "New York" to make Republicans stay home?
The truth here is that about half of Americans live in larger cities, those are mostly Democrats, and half live in suburbs, smaller towns or rural areas, mostly Republicans.
Democrats may indeed pay a lot of attention to "New York media", but Republicans not so much, unless genuinely conservative.
