Joining the 2006 predictions symposium on National Review Online, Cliff May takes a stab at cable news:
Roger Ailes will not lose sleep over competitive pressures. More specifically, network news programs, CNN and MSNBC, and major newspapers will not stem declines in audience/circulation. The media moguls will not figure out that at least half of those who follow the news are conservatives who prefer not to be insulted and condescended to by "progressive" reporters, editors, and producers.
Crazy as it seems, I've got to disagree with May here. Let me explain. One, I think Ailes does lose sleep and will continue to lose sleep in 2006, because he's a visionary and a genius, and visionaries and geniuses never stop thinking of ways to beat all comers and continue to beat all comers in a big way. Second, the media moguls May calls clueless aren't clueless at all. They're arrogant and they know that they're arrogant, and they know that at least half of news consumers aren't "progressive" elitists. Oh, the moguls know that. They just don't care, but they persist in believing that with enough biased proselytizing for the left, they can change hearts and minds. Fat chance, which leads me to what I do agree with May on: that network news, CNN, MSNBC and major papers will continue to go down the tubes. They'll be missed. Not. Who?
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