More on the same topic from Brent Bozell
THis echoes a point I have made in some comments on Daily Pundit and Hit and Run:
It’s got to be one of the dumbest $10 million investments ever. How off the wall is this business proposition? Start with the notion that a network, liberal or conservative, can somehow be just imposed on the populace. Rush didn’t just appear on the scene and — shazam! — attract 20 million listeners. He toiled in the radio vineyards for years, went national in 1988, and didn’t really reach national distribution until 1991. Even then, while conservatives were latching on to him in droves, he didn’t truly become a nightmare in liberal heads until Bill Clinton arrived to corrupt the nation in 1993.
And, indeed
Conservative talk radio was never planned in a corporate boardroom (or at our VRWC meetings). It was an unintended consequence of arrogantly liberal national media outlets, who, over time, have insulted every Republican/conservative voter as a racist, a sexist, and a believer in heinous imaginary causes like starving all the poor people and killing all the innocent Iraqi civilians to get their oil. Big Media’s utter dismissal of a conservative perspective meant utter dismissal of a conservative audience. When offered an alternative in a talk-show host that spoke their language, they pounced to embrace Rush Limbaugh.
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August 10th, 2024 at 10:26 am