One thing about “conservative” media I’d like to know beyond web traffic is how right-wing radio stations are doing. I don’t think Fargo’s piece mentions this. I listened for years but stopped as conservatism evolved into Trumpism and the hosts I’d listened to and defended for decades abandoned the conservatism they’d instilled in me. How embarrassing - for me as well as for them! I stopped listening to Rush and Sean in favor of - get this - the more thoughtful hosts syndicated by Salem Media - only to watch the Salem hosts capitulate one by one to Trumpism. I remember checking the radio ratings around that time and discovering, to my horror, that the listenership to those shows was growing, not shrinking! Is that still the case now, or did January 6th and the Trump trials make those stations lose more listeners than they’d been gaining in recent years?
One thing about “conservative” media I’d like to know beyond web traffic is how right-wing radio stations are doing. I don’t think Fargo’s piece mentions this. I listened for years but stopped as conservatism evolved into Trumpism and the hosts I’d listened to and defended for decades abandoned the conservatism they’d instilled in me. How embarrassing - for me as well as for them! I stopped listening to Rush and Sean in favor of - get this - the more thoughtful hosts syndicated by Salem Media - only to watch the Salem hosts capitulate one by one to Trumpism. I remember checking the radio ratings around that time and discovering, to my horror, that the listenership to those shows was growing, not shrinking! Is that still the case now, or did January 6th and the Trump trials make those stations lose more listeners than they’d been gaining in recent years?