[randita]

Long read, but eye opening. It's a very steep climb for a conservative to get elected at the national level.

[SargeK]

Sorry. Nope. Not giving NR a click. They’re diseased. Terminal Trump Derangement.

[sockhead]

From the article: "Many right-leaning people have hailed this development, believing that they have finally defeated the hated liberal media."

Who believed this? I think we all know that that majority of people still get their news from liberal sources: NBC/ABC/CBS, the Daily Show, Saturday Night Live, Yahoo and Facebook and so on.

[lodi90]

Conservatives do not go AWOL from a battle with Hillary Clinton. The anti-Trump “conservative” chattering classes are now irrelevant to their party and country.

[mrsmith]

The Left media is the same: an echo chamber.
So that’s not the salient point.

I do like this Sheffield guy, here’s another good essay by him: https://praxis.ink/2016/07/does-political-advertising-actually-work-not-really/

But he’s young

[mac_truck]

Some people would say we’re on the verge of electing one right now...ymmv

[LongWayHome]

The irony.....this is the same NR that switched their comments section over to FaceBook today to stop conservatives from posting. there. You can’t make this stuff up.

[RKBA Democrat]

NR are world class experts when it comes to intellectual deafness and running an echo chamber.

Sorry. I’m not giving the GOP-e journal of choice a click.

[plymaniac]

Fair analysis.

Now apply a trend factor.

Where was the conservative media before Reagan? Before Rush.

Conservative media has done a pretty good job under the circumstances. The leftist media had essentially no opposition for decades while they disingenuously assumed a persona of objectivism. This persona is being deconstructed but it will take years to catch up.

[CincyRichieRich]

B.s..
We seek truth, not right leaning. Truth is truth lie is lie.

[donna]

That’s why we all jumped on the Trump Train.

Trump can break through and get noticed and get votes.

That’s why the elites want Trump to become “presidential” and not get that attention so they can defeat him.

[D-fendr]

Very interesting analysis. Explains a lot.

thanks for posting.

[a fool in paradise]

Prior to the Internet, there were basically no large-audience right-wing media operations aside from a few talk-radio programs.

It wasn't because there was no audience for it, there was an ideological blacklist.

[TChad]

That's an important article.

But in the vast middle of those with mixed political views, a full 45 percent had no idea who (Rush) Limbaugh was.

Good lord.