The NYT is losing membership pretty significantly too. This is only to 2018, but you can see the trend:
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Yes, but their influence is outsized based on how many local and regional papers are among their readers.
Assuming 10000 of that readership is 80% of the staff of US papers, that’s a huge influence.
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Newspaper readership in general has been in decline for years.
Only “ethnics” can get that job these days.
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Very droll.
Okay…which is it, guys?
“Liberal” media is dying a fast death.
“Trump” Media is growing and outperforming “Liberal” Media by leaps and bounds…yet “Liberal” media has the greater “influence”?
No…To me…“influence” means having the greatest impact and believably on it’s target audience…and the ability to mold that audience into a collective reality.
Conservative media; across all platforms; does a much better job of this than “liberal” media.
Therefore; Hannity and Rush Limbaugh have a much greater influence than Maddows and NPR.
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Both can be currently true. I think legacy media is dying quick regardless. But the legacy media does still have a large influence, even if it is currently bleeding out.
Imagine a day when the news media is just anyone who has a YouTube channel.
That they do, but the NYT can still set the news agenda for hundreds of papers. That’s not negligible. The NYT is the paper that the BBC reads, so it has an international reach that Rush doesn’t have.
It’s easy if you try.
Hell won’t be below us.
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Above us only skynews.
I see what you are saying, @Legalsteel…and I don’t disagree…
However…to paint Conservative Media as the Little Engine that Could…fighting off the Liberal Hordes like they are the 300 fighting off the Xerxes 300,000 simply is a false narrative.
Conservative Media has an influence that is both broad and powerful. Trying to paint things in terms of just numbers simply doesn’t give a realistic picture of the power Conservative Media has across all platforms.
Oh, for sure.
No disagreement from my corner, Mufasa. I’m just not quite so willing to say they have a negligible influence. Either sides legacy media claiming to be bearing a cross strikes me as self serving.
Agree.
I’m not sure about regular channels. I’ve ssid before it’s been a long time since I watched broadcast news. From what I remember it’s not a significant amount of political coverage other than basic stuff like the President was in Tokyo today or some stuff.
As pointed out below Fox regularly outperforms MSNBC and CNN combined. And talk radio is dominated by conservatives and has been for years now.
I’m just saying the idea that you can’t find conservative viewpoints doesn’t stand up.
…OR that those Conservative Viewpoints our somehow “drowned out” by all the Liberal “noise”.
Old people listen to the radio and watch TV for the news as if Walter Cronkite were still on.
Maddows went all in on Russia collusion when that collapsed so did her ratings. Most media outlets are still left wing.
NPR soared for a while and is now coming back to Earth. I am thinking it’s because they are hook, line and sinker for identity politics. They don’t review a play or a movie unless there is some identity angle. You have to be a black, Hispanic, gay, transsexual, gender fluid director or actor or musician to get noticed by NPR. It’s no surprise that I never heard of the movies, plays, shows or music they review.
To me it’s not important if a minority does impressive art, but I care more about whether or not the art is good, than the identity of the person who made it.
This is an interesting article. I highlights the top 10 media screw ups, with their retractions. And it’s written by Glen Greenwald, who is left wing as it gets: