>make millions by speaking your mind
Is conservative talk radio a dying meme? Even then, Hannity has the highest ratings of any nightly news program on his Fox show. Is conservative media in general a get rich quick scam?
I'm a freshman econ major in the Northeast. I listen to Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh's podcasts daily if I can and I'll sometimes watch Fox but only discreetly so normies don't think I'm weird. I'm curious if I can make some cash in this business and what it'd take.
There are only so many Conservative media people that make good money in the US, maybe a dozen? But if that is your passion, go for it.
the audience is literally dying of old age
Why does Hannity have the highest ratings then? I can understand talk radio, but seriously why would he and O'Reilly be getting so much viewership if it weren't for there being a large group of viewers.
It may be my own personal bias holding me back, but i refuse to look at Fox News and the Republican Party and say "muh old white men"
only old people watch the news on cable television at night.
seriously. It's the same deal with radio. Just old people. When someone has the top rated show in a medium or timeslot viewed only by old people that doesn't mean their audience isn't old. The opposite in fact.
Hannity is smart. He played neutral in the primaries and went in hard for Trump. This is why he retains the old white conservative demographic while also attracting younger Trump/nationalist types.
>Is conservative media in general a get rich quick scam?
No. You've got to have the right message and be charismatic. I think it's more lucrative than the left-wing equivalent though, because your audience is more likely to be high net-worth individuals. However the counter argument is there's a lot of rednecks and young alt-rights: all depends on your specialty and your message.
The other thing is, if you're a conservative yourself, how can you be sure you're not just regurgitating the discourse. You need to wrap it around in a new way, otherwise there's tonnes of blowhards on the internet -- how do you differentiate?
>Why does Hannity have the highest ratings then?
Without doing my research I would assume it's because young people are more likely to be cord cutters. So that means that the cable audience is skewed towards the old.
They are very popular at the moment because the majority of the media is a giant leftwing circlejerk
There aren't many sources of right wing opinions because they have been censored or drowned out by the left, so they are in demand
Evangelicals today comprise like a quarter of the American electorate and let's take that down to 15% in terms of actually conservative ones and ones that participate in the political process.
That's a pretty sizable portion of the electorate to be targeting, larger than blacks in fact. And the Republicans basically have a monopoly on them. Further, the most fertile white states are the Republican states (pic related), so it can be assumed that as time goes on, whites will trend more conservative and the meme of the white liberal hipster will start to die out.
Wouldn't it stand to reason that whites will start consuming a lot more conservative media than they already are in the future, even though the general electorate is shifting towards POC because of immigrant birth rates.
Also, here's another map
>the most fertile white states are the Republican states (pic related), so it can be assumed that as time goes on, whites will trend more conservative and the meme of the white liberal hipster will start to die out.
this is the exact opposite of what has been happening for the last 40 years.
all polls show Christianity and conservatism dying out faster as time goes on, not the reverse. We could see a backlash and revival, it happens, but every time that's happened in the last 40 years it's been smaller than the time before.
by 2050 this nation will be majority brown and growing catholic if current trends continue.
Long term if your interpretation of the statistics are correct: YES!
But we need to consider a few things
1. Is this higher fertility rate even among the whites? I will assume it is because I have no evidence to the contrary
2. What is the average income among those high fertility rate communities? Let's be honest: poor people are more likely to have more children than wealthy people. Now, while you have volume in a potential future conservative market, it's not necessarily a lucrative one.
3. How can you position yourself in this market that's already dominated by the likes of Fox News, and the Glen Becks, Alex Joneses etc. as a new entrant?
That last question will be shaped by the average income question: demagoguery plays a lot better with people with poor education, you can use simpler, more populist arguments. That also means you can do the Trump: anti-establishment message
However with a wealthier conservative fan base you need to be more pro-establishment, you need to shift your narrative to be more about a shallower locus of control: to be horribly generalist - wealthier and successful people are more likely to think they are responsible for their own success, and poor people think they were held back by external factors. Your choice of on-screen talent, your choice of "brand values", your message... everything will need to pivot around that audience.
>Is conservative talk radio a dying meme?
They're not Conservatives.
The American right is Neocon nonsense.
>American Right isn't conservative
fuck off yuropoor don't forget to wipe Putin's cum off your chin :^)
But aren't those mostly the liberal trendy sects of Christianity, not things like the Evangelicals? The Evangelicals are like the only growing religious group in America that more people convert to than leave.
Plus, like one quarter of Hispanics are Evangelicals
Honest Answer?
There is a HUGE need for leadership and a voice among the blue collar, working class whites.
These are the people being left behind who don't get special priveliges like Affrmative Action, hiring quotas, special schools just to give them a degree because they're "black".
Poor working class whites are a HUGE untapped population who need a voice.
The only reason Trump is popular is because he's made himself the spokesperson for the disadvantaged, under represented, blue collar whites.
But Trump is too much of a wild card. Working class whites need someone more reasonable to be their "voice".
>speaking your mind
They don't speak their minds, nor do they allow anyone else to. What would happen if you went on their show and called them out for being faggots? You'd be kicked off mid-interview, escorted out by security, and told to never come back.
They don't mind political correctness. They just want to go back to being the ones who decide on what is correct or not. They want to be the ones to control the language, and therefore thoughts of Americans.
>Is conservative talk radio a dying meme?
Is this a joke? If anything it's growing as alternative media is replacing the MSM.
I lived in DC for 12 years and have a bunch of friends in punditry (I worked at a policy non-profit. DC is an incredibly small world and everyone really does know everyone). The vast vast majority get paid dogshit cranking out a handful of think pieces a day (think $32k/year no benefits). The semi-successful ones who write books and make regular appearances on cable news do a bit better but are all either attractive women who built their audience starting off as reporters, or are policy experts in a specific field and have a full time job at a university, think tank, or publication. The Hannitys and Limbaughs with multi-million dollar contracts are unicorns who lucked out by entering their respective mediums early and being persistent.
Should be mentioned it looks easy to just speak your mind and have people listen, but it actually requires a great deal of charisma and quick wit that the vast majority of people simply do not have. And you have to be good at it when you're on the spot. People who care about actual issues tend to shy away from punditry because knowing facts about the economy or law and entertaining an audience are entirely different skill sets.
If you really want to get into it, start a podcast. Or start a talk show at your school. You build an audience by being either uniquely entertaining, or being super knowledgeable in one area.
He didn't say there's not an audience, he said they're dying of old age. The average age demographic of right-wing media is baby boomers, who are literally dying of old age.
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