re: #352 ObserverArt

There is probably some reality to that thinking. Maybe that 40% makes up 80% of the media companies revenue.

What if liberals and progressives have already given up on the classic media and are going to the web and social media to spread the news?

What we have may be one side of the political spectrum supporting the old media and the media is forced to cater to them to stay in business.

If that is the case, then we are paying for the changes now in really tough ways.

The New York Times.

That’s the big counterfactual to that possibility. Their main readerbase, dead tree and online, is still left-of-center because the only ones left of Limbaugh who don’t treat the paper as the Pariah of All Hate For America are those who want to troll its comments pages and Trump, vacillating between treating it like ‘fake news’ and desperately wanting it’s approval as a New York paper.

All the while running its 5000th hagiography of Trump Country, the latest Bari Weiss piece telling us how Liberal College Students have murdered free speech in its cradle, and Bret Stephens telling us how Pruitt is God’s gift to the EPA.