On Monday’s Morning Joe, New Republic editor Michael Tomasky, as per his current New Republic column, said that the “real reason” for Kamala Harris’ defeat is that the right-wing media is more influential than the liberal media!
No doubt the conservative media is considerably stronger and more prevalent than it was in the pre-National Review days. But more influential than the liberal media? If only!
Perhaps unwittingly, Tomasky gave the game away when he described the growth of conservative media as a “problem”:
TOMASKY: But what I was trying to draw readers’ attention to with this column is a longer historical problem that I’ve watched develop over the last 30 years. Which is the growth, tremendous growth, in size and influence of the right-wing media in this country. When we talk about the media, usually in shorthand, we say “the media this, the media…
