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[Joe Reid <jreid AT vnet.net>]

[sorry I'm late on this one]

Shea Tisdale wrote:
> Why is it that the rise of conservative media can only be explained by
> liberals as a conspiracy?  Conservative media is not some conspiracy.
> It's a natural reaction/correction to the media situation that existed
> in the US throughout the past thirty or so years.  It's the market at
> work.  The only reason there is a rise in "conservative media" is
> because a huge percentage of the population is unhappy with existing
> media choices and wants an alternative opinion to that which they were
> able to get from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, the NY Times, The Washington Post,
> etc., etc.  

Maybe because the media's job is to question everything, and more often 
than not "conservative media outlets" do nothing but reprint government 
press releases.  The "huge percentage of the population" has been 
convinced that questioning authority is bad.

Obvious Man to the rescue:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/uclickcomics/20031102/cx_nq_uc/nq20031102&e=6

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