Posted by
Zorro on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:21:31 PM
For some reason the Mainstream Media are no longer hiding their biases. As the years go by, they are increasingly and openly partisan for leftist causes. Whether this is the result of the rise of a conservative voice as Rush Limbaugh believes, or other factors, I cannot predict that it will abate. That the media will be increasingly partisan is not a difficult prediction to make, but I've been wondering what the consumers of media would do.
I've finally decided that I believe that the rise of a polarized media will come too late to fulfill the conservative dream of informing and mobilizing a Nation whose natural inclinations are mostly conservative. Alas, I believe this silent, and inactive majority of conservative-leaning voters has finally come to an end and will consequently never be mobilized by a more fair exposure to the facts.
Where has this majority gone? It was slowly dissolved by long-term liberal domination of three of the four pillars of culture: entertainment, news media, and education. The fourth, religion, has been under heavy attack by liberals for dominance, and is insufficiently strong and insufficiently conservative at its core to maintain a large body of people whose culture is naturally conservative.
The best action that conservatives can take at this point is to aggressively pursue these commanding heights of culture--entertainment, news media, and education--as liberals did early in the last century. It is only by virtue of conservatism's inherent superiority that it will eventually triumph, but that superiority must be demonstrated and communicated. Entertainment, news media, and education are the places to do it.