AHC: both U.S. conservatives and liberals grudgingly respect mainstream media?

And not necessarily just people who like politics. For example, I remember a guy talking about how the local news seems to act like we're the first generation who have ever raised children! Because of all their alarmist health advice.

So frankly, I think this one might be borderline ASB, but I'd be interested in how people take a crack at it.

Bonus points if there's still a Fox News.
 
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Maybe have MORE media like Fox News, ie. sporting an open political bias, but spread out across the spectrum.

So, politicians all recognize that certain media are against them, while others support them. Thus, when they get angry about the media, they specifically attack only the ones on the other side, and ignore or even praise the ones on their own side.

(For a fleshed out example, imagine that Air America is as big as Fox News, and has a TV station, and that both Fox and AA are the dominant networks in the market.)

That said, I don't know how things work in countries with more openly biased media. Do French right-wingers, for example, only criticize Liberation and its ideological kin, while leaving Figaro alone? Or do they just lump the whole media together as one big enemy?
 
(For a fleshed out example, imagine that Air America is as big as Fox News, and has a TV station, . . .
Alright, I can roll with this as the beginning. And then the mainstream media competes back. And actually, health topics might be a pretty good area of competition. Such as:

solid succinct info as the three-drug cocktail is being developed and tested for AIDS (mid '90s? ?)

info on the clot-busing drugs for strokes, but only blockage strokes which are the most common type (late '80s ? ?)

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Didn't there used to be a lot more respect when their were only 3 networks? For instance Johnson thought Cronkite had enough respect that he said "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America."
 
Didn't there used to be a lot more respect when their were only 3 networks?

Yes, but they were viewed as safe and timid. I think they really were. We might also use the analogy of the Big 3 auto companies, in prosperous position only because of lack of competition. And this is basically why Fox found such an open field.


For instance Johnson thought Cronkite had enough respect that he said "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America."
I've heard that, too. Wish Johnson would have went with the poker read.
 
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