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Why don’t they get it?

Michael Connor

Dec 05 2008

2 mins

Month after month Andrew Bolt’s blog receives over one million "hits". But the MSM remains frigidly Left. None of the established media seems interested in giving a growing audience conservative news analysis or offering a different point of view from that of the Left establishment.

Left blogs attract Left readers. Conservative blogs attract Right and Left. The comments pages on the blogs of Andrew Bolt, Janet Albrechtsen, Tim Blair and Piers Akerman etc are lively places. Phillip Adams’ blog is a cemetery with dull contributions from the typing dead.

Did anyone read or take any notice of Australian media commentary about the recent US elections? Certainly the Left may have but, I’m guessing, most of us with a dissident frame of mind ignored the chatter and went straight to US internet sources or watched Fox News. If anyone glanced at the newspaper “news” they only saw stuff that had appeared in Left blogs the day before.

It is noticeable that when Bolt’s readers refer to books…

Michael Connor

Michael Connor

Contributing Editor, Theatre

Michael Connor

Contributing Editor, Theatre

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