We already know that Conservatives absolutely dominate in talk radio with American Family Radio political programs reaching statewide and SuperTalk nearly doing so. In addition there are other stations throughout the state that also carry conservative opinion while others make it a staple of their morning programs.
Well, in addition to radio you can count newspapers in their column (a pun) also. Research by Media Matters, a media watchdog foundation showed the following breakdown in nationally syndicated opinion columns published in Mississippi newspapers.
This represents the total column impressions adjusted to reflect circulation:
This represents the total number of conservative, progressive, and centrist columnists:
This shows the columnists who appear most often with dark representing weekly and light representing at least monthly:
* In Mississippi, there are 23* daily newspapers with a total circulation of 310,695.
* Conservative syndicated columnists appear a total of 41 times per week in Mississippi newspapers. Centrist columnists appear a total of 5 times, while progressive columnists appear a total of 21 times.[1]
* Taking newspaper circulation into account, these columnists have the potential to reach Mississippi readers a total of 1,574,515 times each week.
* Our study includes 20 of the 23 daily newspapers published in Mississippi because The Brookhaven Daily Leader, The Clarksdale Press Register, and The Meridian Star did not return our inquiries about each paper’s lineup of nationally syndicated columnists, nor could each paper’s information be obtained through resources readily available in Washington, D.C.
** These data reflect only regular (at least once a week) conservative and progressive columnists, for the full report go to: www.mediamatters.org/op-ed and to view state-by-state or specific newspaper data go to: http://mediamatters.org/reports/oped/search
Media Matters huh? Do they even matter? After reading this you decide...
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Well,
ReplyDelete1. Try a single word of original content in your post if you're going to pimp in on the net.
2. Does that have anything to do with the facts here? No.
Your article is actually authored by a editor for the ultra-conservative National Review who played a role in tearing down President Clinton because of his personal life, something I thought conservatives were supposed to oppose.
Come on John. You can do better than that, Wayne Dowdy will be calling with your talking points soon.
ReplyDeleteHeh, I wonder if Wayne Dowdy even knows my name.
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