If conventional wisdom were correct, one would believe that America is shifting to the left out of disgust over the job being done by President Bush and Republicans in Congress. That should mean that fewer people would be attracted to Conservative talk radio and other media, right? That should mean that networks like Air America should be beating the pants off of personalities like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, right? Wrong.
Where are all the Liberals?
VIA Drudge: Left-leaning new media has hit turbulence at the marketplace, newly released stats show.
A book hyped by major media as documenting a progressive revolution of “blogs” and political power, DAILY KOS ‘CRASHING THE GATE,’ has sold only 3,630 copies since its release last month, according to NIELSEN’s BOOKSCAN.
[NIELSEN claims only 2,062 copies of DAILY KOS have been purchased at the retail level; the rest coming through ‘discount’ outlets.]
Meanwhile, the just released radio Winter Book [Jan-Mar 2006] from ARBITRON shows AIR AMERICA in New York City losing more than a third of its audience — in the past year!
Among all listeners 12+, it was a race to the bottom for AIR AMERICA and WLIB as mid-days went from a 1.6 share during winter 2005 to a 1.0 share winter 2006.
During PM drive, host Randi Rhodes plunged to 27,900 listeners every quarter hour, finishing 25th place in her time slot, down from 60,900 listeners every quarter hour in the fall.
A network source says the radio ratings released today do not reflect the overall growth of the broadcast.
“The demos are better, and listeners trust AIR AMERICA to give them the real truth on issues and the Bush presidency,” says the insider.
Yet, the numbers just don’t pan out, do they? The fact is, the conversation in Liberal media isn’t interesting. I mean really – how long can one listen to someone do nothing but complain about how much they hate George W. Bush? After awhile, the listener begs to know what the Liberals will actually do if they return to power. That’s where the conversation ends, and the Bush bashing begins (again).
Kos claims (no surprise) that Drudge’s numbers aren’t on the up and up. What-ev-eh.
What an absolute BS of a post. You do know those book sales figures don’t include online sales, don’t you? More likely that you do, but choose to ignore that fact.
Consider the online sales figures of relative popularity of recently published (or soon to be published) “progressive” vs “conservative” books:
Amazon best seller list:
Glenn Greenwald – #1 (yet to be released)
Kevin Phillips – #13
Jerome Armstrong/Markos Moulitsas Zuniga – #40
As for the conservative pundits with recent books – well, lets see:
Ann Coulter – #266 (yet to be released)
Ramesh Ponnuru – #428 (yet to be released)
Michelle Malkin – #1,149
Glenn Reynolds – #1,049
Kate O’Beirne – #2,160
Hugh Hewitt – #7,300
Now, if I were to do what you and Drudge have done and chosen only a segment of sales indicators, ie looked solely at online sales figures and no other source, I’d say that the only “conclusion” that could be reached would be the complete “failure of the conservative media”, wouldn’t you?
Right behind this potted plant
Via Glenn Greenwald: Matt Drudge, a man always willing to let his followers look stupid, has claimed that Crashing the…
Beingthere,
HAHAHA. What are your “FACTS” in the face of the onward march and universal popularity of the Glorious Bushbot Revolution?
Really, though, I’m sure PunditBeing will write a correction when he does some research. He’s an honorable man, is he not?
tpd
Yes, I am sure it is coming any minute now…
“Kos Claims (no surprise) that Drudge’s numbers aren’t on the up and up. What-ev-eh.”
Uh, so does Glenn Reynolds.
http://instapundit.com/archives/029919.php
“What-ev-eh” ???
You and my 7 year old niece have something in common.
Punditguy, you’re flat wrong about Crashing the Gates sales. Just admit it!
Wow. What inane idiocy. Check the Amazon listings…it’s really not that difficult.
Loser.