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The Other Media

Posted on Thursday, September 5, 2024
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by Herald Boas
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The 2024 U.S. national election campaign is now entering its home stretch. As the establishment media labors full bore to defeat Donald Trump and prevent the Republican Party from regaining control of the U.S. Senate and keeping its control of the U.S. House, many conservatives, as well as their opponents on the left, underestimate the influence of the “other media” — the media which strives to present a balanced and fair reporting of the news or at least a credible antidote to the so-called fake news and distortions of events and issues being promoted on the left.

This underestimation and lack of appreciation of the other media has consequences, most notably a widespread pessimism and floating anxieties that Republican, conservative and even independent candidates and their issues can’t reach voters on an even political playing field.

That’s true, of course, if the establishment media is considered the only playing field, which it is not. Despite their own self-congratulating attitude, the players of the establishment media now communicate to dramatically shrinking audiences of print, broadcast, and social media consumers.

It has been many years, in fact, since the New York Times, Washington Post, most of the major TV networks, public radio, and hyper-partisan leftist commentators were read or listened to seriously by anyone but a progressive left audience, much of it located primarily in several large urban centers.

Years ago, these establishment media venues did have good reputations for the quality and fairness of their news reporting, and it is these old and abandoned reputations which intimidate some conservatives.

The very nature of news reporting, of course, has rapidly changed in recent years. Much of this change took place in the hasty decline of print media, including newspapers and magazines, the historic and sudden rise of the internet and social media, and the displacement of network news by cable and video streaming sites.

The late conservative broadcaster Rush Limbaugh had with his radio and TV shows the largest audience in the nation — estimated at 30 million. He marked an inflection point, as conservatives and independents increasingly turned away from the leftist activist media.

Today, there are numerous voices, including Newt Gingrich, Thomas Sowell, Michael Barone, Victor Davis Hanson, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, David Horowitz, Laura Ingraham, Hugh Hewitt, Bill O’Reilly, Megyn Kelly, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Steven Hayward, Christopher Rufo, and many other conservative thinkers, writers, and speakers who present outstanding ideas as well as effective critiques of the left and radical policies. They reach tens of millions of voters every day through their columns and op eds, books, broadcasts, blogs, and social media. They increasingly dwarf the readership and audiences of their counterparts on the left.

In addition to other media individuals, there are excellent large institutions which present venues for non-partisan or opposing views such as Ballotpedia, a strictly non-partisan vast online website that covers virtually every election — local, state and federal — in the nation, plus commentary on the courts and ballot issues. Real Clear Politics offers daily the best articles published elsewhere on both sides of political and public policy issues, as well as their own investigative commentary to millions of its readers online.

Numerous local, regional and national conservative think tanks and organizations (including AMAC) offer frequent forums, programs and publications to stimulate new ideas and interest in conservative and independent thinking.

Through the above, more than half of American voters were not at all surprised when President Joe Biden stepped away from re-election after his disastrous debate with former President Trump. They had read or seen the evidence of his decline daily through the other media. The establishment media had routinely covered up this decline to its print and broadcast audiences.

It is no surprise then that the credibility of the establishment media is so low in every public opinion poll. It is likely that the establishment media’s current campaign of hype, cover-up and deception about Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will fail to succeed with any but the hard-core radical base of Democrat voters.

Already, the other media is exposing the radical records and beliefs of Harris and Walz. An astonishing trail of misrepresentations, false claims, and radical actions by Tim Walz is coming out every day in the other media. But not a word about any of it in the establishment media trying so hard to defeat Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.

The two remaining months of political combat, candidate debates, and campaign ads is a long time and too open a playing field to suppress those kinds of political secrets from coming out into plain view.

Herald Boas is a writer for AMAC Newsline.

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anna hubert
anna hubert
1 month ago

Everyone buying groceries, gas , paying the bills, seeing a dentist or a doctor, having the prescription filled musty have noticed that something is totally screwed up. Everyone must know where the screw up came from. That should be the deciding factor when casting the vote, not the fairy tails that we hear from the major news casters.

GMA
GMA
1 month ago

Radicals know how to get their point across to the nation..Conservatives must learn to be more aggressive to compete.

Ron St.Martin
Ron St.Martin
1 month ago

You Left one of the top conservatives off your list Dan Bongino!

Robert S. Dena
Robert S. Dena
1 month ago

Several well known conservative voices are mentioned above and deservedly so, but let’s not forget the likes of Carl Higbie and Rob Schmitt on Newsmax. For the most part these two guys don’t give any voice to a liberal democrat. They are ALL conservative, unlike Fox which seems to have gone partially to the dark side.

TOBS
TOBS
1 month ago

BIDENOMICS IS WORKING ALRIGHT WORKING ON BREAKING EVERYBODY’S BANK ACCOUNT AND SAVINGS. BY VOTING FOR KAMEL TOE DO THESE DUMBA.. REALIZE SHE WILL CANCEL TRUMP TAX CUTS WHICH WILL DRAIN ANOTHER 18 PERCENT OF THEIR CHECKS FURTHER

Jonboy
Jonboy
1 month ago

Mr. Boas, if I could only agree with your article and most of the follow-up comments. There is the existing Mass of voters who do not have any interest in or ignore politics until just before the election. Then they refer to the main stream media to get information, then decide how they will vote. There are also the very large group of democrat voters who “always vote straight Democrat” regardless of the candidates. That makes their lives easier because they do not have to do any research or thinking for themselves – they just puns “D” and it’s done! It is these two groups that will determine the election – May God have mercy on us

Robert Zuccaro
Robert Zuccaro
1 month ago

Dana Show, Megyn Kelly, and MKat “Getting Hammered” is all I have time for. CAUTION: Get enough listeners, Dems will try to regulate! They hate not being in full control of all media!

CLIFFORD F GERACI
CLIFFORD F GERACI
1 month ago

Unbelievable to me that half the American people hate America. A vote for Democrats is a vote AGAINST America. It is hard for me to understand how we got to this point of self hatred so quickly. It’s so sad to see our country fail. Evil is winning.

Leslie
Leslie
1 month ago

I’m always astonished that Sebastian Gorka continues to broadcast in Salem, OR, the liberal capital of Oregon! The rest of us rural Americans get outvoted by our three main liberal bastions: Portland, Salem and Eugene. Love Gorka’s shows on Newsmax.

Kenneth Westenkirchner
Kenneth Westenkirchner
1 month ago

The mainstream media has proven time & again to not be truthful about their reporting, especially the far left.
They hid Biden for 4 1/2 years as his cognitive decline picked up speed during his campaign & subsequent turn. Now they’re doing it again with Harris/Walz.
They’re not impartial journalists. They are overpaid influencers who have a much higher opinion of their worth then what is warranted. No one watches them or trusts them.

Susabella
Susabella
1 month ago

One of the best conservative radio hosts is John Carlson at KVI 570 am radio in the Seattle area. He should get a heck of a lot more attention.

John Shipwayj
John Shipwayj
1 month ago

How can anyone not support a candidate like Kamala Harris who has developed the thickest knee callouses ever witnessed on Planet Earth as her political career has developed? Wanna protect the nation?? Hide behind those bulletproof “hard” earned yet fully organic Kamela knee callouses and nothing can harm us!!

Stephen Russell
Stephen Russell
1 month ago

The other Media is
Talk Radio
NewsMax
OAN RAV

David Millikan
David Millikan
1 month ago

Fake News doesn’t tell you that 73 percent ($7.8 Billion) of Infrastructure funding went to Blue States while Red States received only $3 Billion. That’s weaponization of Federal funding to benefit only democrats and not Americans as a whole.
No surprise there. Would you expect anything less from Dictator Beijing biden? I seriously doubt it.

cam
cam
1 month ago

For those Americans who are allowing themselves to be fooled by partisan falsehoods, they should blame themselves for not using their minds but emotions. Harris is part of the Biden/Harris administration, and is a contributor to all the senseless dismal policies. If they think two counterfeiters would be best for the two highest offices (she uses the former President’s policies as hers; he’s lying knowingly and not even decent to simply say “I lied”. They will lead this nation, no one should deceived his or herself, in total oblivious hell. All crimes will increase, more dismantling of rights, or ill decisions to land one in jail for what they deemed false or propaganda, or confiscation of properties.

Gary Mayberry
Gary Mayberry
1 month ago

NEWSMAX and Real Americans Voice are 2 of the best Conservative tv networks out there. NEWSMAX covers most all of Trumps rallies live and RAV covers most as well.

michaelR
michaelR
1 month ago

News papers controlled by the d-bag progressive socialist crat party print nothing but one sided far left tripe. Sickening to read.

David Millikan
David Millikan
1 month ago

Want to know how Communist harris is the legitimate Democrat presidential nominee when she Never Ran for it to get legal votes when there is no such thing as Virtual voting for presidential nominee?

johnh
johnh
1 month ago

Wonder why Musk bought X and Trump posts on his TruthSocial or whatever it is called. People with money know the power of media to manipulate the citizens of a country.

johnh
johnh
1 month ago

Yesterday Trump was already saying that ABC is horrible & worst place for him to debate. I see in your picture above includes Megyn Kelly & that Trump refused to go to second debate that she moderated cuz she asked him tougher questions than Clinton. If you run for POTUS, you should not expect to be asked softball question. Please do not try to tell me debates are rigged as I will not accept that.

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