So, the news media is incredibly concentrated with progressives and channels that are, openly or otherwise, committed to putting a liberal spin on everything.

It’s funny, because progressives in academia and media are always use the accusing code phrase, “Unnrepresentative and doesn’t look like the country”, but of course the output of their own professions don’t resonate with 50% of the country. Remember Haidt’s gimmick where he couldn’t get a percent of people in a crowd of Social Psychologists to raise their hand and admit they were ‘conservatives’?

For media and entertainment, that’s leaving money on the table but only so long as everyone agrees not to touch it and stay on message. One defection and the game breaks down and, yeah, that means ‘losing control’.

So, when Fox News comes out, it’s immediately got a monopoly on a potential 50% market share, and the other stations are scrambling for the other 50% instead of the whole. So it goes to first place and stays there. Compared to the level of control in the pre-Fox days, yeah, that’s over.

A similar thing applies to movies, of which American Sniper is an element of a breed that seem to have the largest profits. Remember Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ? Panned by the usual suspects. Budget: $30M. Box Office: $610M!

That’s not an anomaly. That’s capitalism when a whole market segment typically goes unserviced, and I think Eastwood and Gibson understand that. It’s be interesting to make a list of all the other progressive-hated film ‘anomalies’ and see how successful they really were.