See my post #34. It’s a rather simplistic theory of mine and backed up by no data. However, Luce was one of the single most influential “media moguls” of the era and he was somewhat conservative. All the national politicians were scared to death of him and made no move without considering what he was going to write about their actions.
I gather he had the cojones AND enough influence to skewer any of the toughy-feely types of his day and the rest of the media world paid attention. Probably safe to argue he lived and worked at a time when there were still competing ideas in "mainstream" media, that is, there still existed likeminded defenders with some stature. Would he be skewered, or at best, ignored today?
All the national politicians were scared to death of him and made no move without considering what he was going to write about their actions.
Those were some heady days my friend! Are there any conservative pundits today who wield that type of clout? The environment over the last half century all but precludes even a man of his stature getting a hearing.