It intrigues me how so many conservatives whine about how 'liberal' Hollywood movies are or how 'liberal' the news media are. Then they'll lecture you on how, in the free market, businesses must cater to their audiences.
Well it makes you wonder: if Hollywood and the news media are putting out such allegedly 'liberal' products and they are still wildly successful industries, then perhaps there are more 'liberals' in America than conservatives would like to admit.
According to conservative opinion, four television networks are 'liberal' (NBC/MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS) and only one is 'fair and balanced.' If that dubious assertion is correct, then is it because there's four times as much demand for 'liberal' news than Fox News [sic]? After all, if conservatives were so numerous, or at least in higher proportion than 1 to 4, wouldn't there be more than a single conservative news channel? Wouldn't there be more conservative films? Don't conservatives watch TV and spend money too?
Or maybe the media and Hollywood just aren't quite as liberal as the Chicken Littles would have you believe.
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