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In reply to the discussion: Just yesterday, I read an OP asking why we didn't have progressive media to counter Fox/Limbaugh [View all]certainot
(9,090 posts)after reagan killed the fairness doctrine they bought up all the stations they could. they subsidized it. they gave limbaugh out for free. they laid a lie turd pie on the country and then in 96 or so put visual icing on it with fox.
it's all monopoly power. the demand is fake. in most parts of the country there are no free easy alternatives. they have all the loudest stations and sue our universities and pro sports to attract advertisers and community cred, or they're just the only and loudest, clearest signal for emergencies, weather, news, traffic.there's a huge secondary and tertiary audience.
fox would collapse without talk radio because it exists in competition with other alternatives a click away.
trump is the culmination of all that fake demand. as long as democrats and liberals ignore talk radio, the 10% minority that limbaugh and 300 wannabes on 1500 radio stations represent will continue to short circuit democracy with made-up demand for cruzs and gomerts and greitens and trumps - made up out of alternate realities and fake facts.
facebook and camb anal were used to TARGET but most of the trolling memes/talking points were established/piggybacked years and months of talk radio repetition.
that is why trump's bunch studied talk radio in 2014. they parasitized the demand for walls and voter suppression and racism created from years of repetition of lies about 'illegal aliens' voting and destroying the economy and bringing ebola and drugs. lies that succeeded because liberals have ignored talk radio.