From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 02:51:20 MST
Spike writes
> Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> > Therefore, more leftist assholes get before the cameras...
>
> I have noticed over the years that Hollywood Incorporated
> is very left leaning. After Reagan left the biz, I cannot
> name a politically conservative entertainer in television
> or the movies. Can You?
Yes. The inimitable Charles Heston, of course. But also
Bruce Willis and the Kevin Arnold of "The Wonder Years".
Actually, few can be named, because conservatives dare
not speak up, or they get black-listed real fast.
<Spoilers for SimOne --- which I intend to view
tomorrow night --- elided ;-) >
> Why did all the right wingers end up on the radio?
Originally? Because they had a Message that wasn't getting
out. Rush and the others usually don't have guests, but
just articulate the logic of their positions over and over.
(And, of course, sometimes the illogic, like on abortion---
though it's interesting that this is seldom discussed!)
Up until 1988, I had been waiting twenty-five years for some
mass media personality to carefully articulate conservative
positions. It was practically unbelievable when it happened.
So there was an enormous market out there, which had been
somehow cordoned off by the journalism schools and the tight
cliques that control broadcast television.
But it's no longer just radio. There are one or two cable
TV channels that are either conservative, or balanced (it's
always hard to tell---the only thing that's easy to see
is that they're not uniformly laying out the usual liberal
pabulum).
Lee
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