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July 27, 2015
By Jackie Calmes
in Campaigns, Elections & Parties, Featured, Papers, Politics & Government, Publications
A paper by Jackie Calmes, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Spring 2015) and national correspondent for The New York Times, examines the increasing influence of conservative media on the Republican Party’s agenda.
Calmes traces the history of conservative media, from its founding after World War II to the present-day proliferation of talk radio and Internet personalities. She finds that beyond the big names and outlets such as Limbaugh and Fox, smaller local personalities also exert significant influence over listeners and politicians.
This influence is troubling to leaders in the Republican Party, who Calmes interviewed extensively for the paper. She argues that today’s conservative media now shapes the agenda of the party, pushing it to the far right – at the expense of its ability to govern and pick presidential nominees.
Read related articles by Calmes in The New York Times, “As the GOP Base Clamors for Confrontation, Candidates Oblige” and in The New York Times Magazine, “Steve Deace and the Power of Conservative Media.”
www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/us/politics/as-the-gop-base-clamors-for-confrontation-candidates-oblige.html?
www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/magazine/steve-deace-and-the-power-of-conservative-radio.html?_r=0
Listen to Calmes discuss her paper on our Media & Politics Podcast:
soundcloud.com/harvard/conservative-medias-influence
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Overview
2 Media Pioneers of the Right: The “Responsible” and the “Kooks”
3 The Second Generation: Listeners, Clicks, Dollars…and Blood
4 “Conservative-Industrial Complex” – Might on the Right
5 Messengers of the Left: Liberal Media Doesn’t Compare
6 Setting the Agenda: “Ugly” Debut of the Republican Congress
7 Setting the Agenda: Common Core, from Bipartisan to Litmus Test
8 Agenda Setter – Steve Deace: Fear God. Tell the Truth. Make Money.
9 Diagnosis: “Epistemic Closure” – “Untethered from Reality”?
10 Endnotes
11 Appendix A: Conservative Internet Sites
12 Appendix B: Political Slant of Top Radio Talk-Show Hosts
13 Appendix C: The Common Core Standards Initiative: News Coverage and Commentary
14 Acknowledgements
Download as a PDF
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