Well, they lost the battle for the control of the conventional broadcast and print media, to be sure, but the struggle for the actual political culture itself simply found another arena, one in which the stifling level of groupthink present in, say, the network newsrooms, was not present. What is revealing in all of this is the level to which the liberal control of the conventional media is dependent on this groupthink. Bernard Goldberg documents this in some detail in Bias.