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Going mainstream: the right faces new media realities.(SPECIAL POST-ELECTION ISSUE)

National Review

| December 01, 2008 | Spruiell, Stephen | COPYRIGHT 2008 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

ANY program for conservative revival has to take into account the transfigured media. In the last decade, we have witnessed the decline of traditional news organizations and the rise of the new media. Obviously left-leaning but ostensibly objective broadcast networks and newspapers have lost market share to openly opinionated cable-news programs, talk-radio shows, blogs, and websites.

In an attempt to keep up, the declining but powerful traditional news organizations have become less objective, more attitudinal, and, correspondingly, more liberal. Straight-news reporters now clutter the front pages with opinionated "analysis" pieces; the paragons of objectivity ...

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