Media Democracy Dot Com: The Left Shoots Back
by Ward Harkavy
New report on talk video spells doom for talk radio’s influence.
Video’s killing the rock-ribbed-conservative stars, if a new survey on the Internet and politics is true.
YouTube, in other words, is sending Rush Limbaugh down the tubes.
Right-wingers dominated the air waves for decades and were the early users of the Internet, compared with lefties, as I noted nearly a decade ago in the Voice in “Left Behind”.
Now the left has overtaken the right. Also endangered are the establishment’s talking-head TV shows, like the one Tim Russert hosted.
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