The state of conservative media

[Balog]

A lot of very interesting facts and figures on both the ideological bubble many of us live in as well as the relative ineffectiveness of conservative outlets.

https://praxis.ink/2016/08/the-conservative-media-echo-chamber-has-made-the-right-deaf-to-reality/

[brimic]

I get the feeling that conservatives who are informed get most of their news on the radio on the way in and way out of work.

In my locality (near Milwaukee, WI), outside of the socialist run helhole of milwaukee proper, is a ring of counties that are some of the most, if not most reliably conservative in the country.
The AM stations have a few very conservative talk shows in the morning and afternoon and a few moderately conservative shows- nearly everyone in the conservative areas listen to them daily. The further out you go from the range of these stations, the less conservative and less informed people are in general.
The left has tried their hand at opposing radio programming, but have all been failures.

[Balog]

The reach of talk radio is limited, and it's mostly preaching to the choir not influencing centrists.

[HankB]

. . .
The left has tried their hand at opposing radio programming, but have all been failures.

THAT is because of saturation - the left already has ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Al-Jazeera, PBS, the Huffington Post, LA Times, New York Times, and on and on and on . . . lefties don't have enough time to listen to MORE of the the same on AM radio.

[MechAg94]

The reach of talk radio is limited, and it's mostly preaching to the choir not influencing centrists.

IMO, most centrists are centrist because they don't care about politics and can't/won't decide.  I think there are far fewer actual centrists (with mixed viewpoints between the parties) than anyone thinks.  I think far more common will be people with strong opinions disgusted with both parties.  I recall seeing interviews of the undecided people the networks drag out to listen to the debates.  Half those people sound like morons. 

[Perd Hapley]

IMO, most centrists are centrist because they don't care about politics and can't/won't decide.  I think there are far fewer actual centrists (with mixed viewpoints between the parties) than anyone thinks.  I think far more common will be people with strong opinions disgusted with both parties.  I recall seeing interviews of the undecided people the networks drag out to listen to the debates.  Half those people sound like morons.  

Don't half of all people sound like morons? I know I do my part.  


I'm not sure who these conservatives are, who think that everyone in the country is getting their news from Breitbart, et al. They must be outside my bubble. It's funny that in an article that complains about conservatives preaching to the choir, he goes on and on about the media's enormous leftward tilt. That is something we've been preaching to each other for decades.

...people with little political acumen...are able to fill Republican voters’ heads with nonsensical ideas like planning to shut down the government with no backup plan...

Um, what?  Does he really think the government has ever been shut down? In what way were the so-called shut-downs "nonsensical"? Call them a bad idea, if you like, but what's nonsensical about them? And what back-up plan is he expecting?

[grampster]

Ummm, statists who love the government...ummmm love the government.