• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    1 day ago

    Didn’t someone try left-wing/liberal talk radio in the US, only discovering that, not only did it lose money (which was not unexpected) but got a negligible audience, because upwards punching at billionaires and preaching about how urgently broken the world is is a poor substitute for a two-minute-hate against scapegoats and permission to be a worse version of oneself?

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      20 hours ago

      There’s plenty of scope on YouTube for content creators. The bigger reason that stuff like that fails is that typically people leaning left tend to be younger and more tech savvy. Whereas people leaning right wing tend to be older and stuck in their ways and so they need content on traditional broadcast television, or they don’t watch it.

      • okwithmydecay@leminal.spaceOP
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        19 hours ago

        This is very true! The left leaning news outlets, such as Novara Media, use YouTube, podcasts and social media to successful reach out to a young audience. Where as my retired parents always watch the evening news on television.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      20 hours ago

      isnt there like one of those on an obscure channel that usually shows at midnight, well its “left-leaning”