Well ok. Would it be safe to assume you suspect it wasn't entirely happenstance? That while there's no apparent smoking gun that maybe your instincts, like mine, suggest otherwise? Just curious.
We developed what I thought was a pretty foolproof test with a TON of data, but it pretty much confirmed the obvious (the media moved left) without ever providing us sufficient details on the WHY.
A mixed bag then. Maybe putting too fine a point on it but aren't we actually talking about the decline and near demise of major conservative media and the ascension of leftist media? Which allowed the liberal media outlets to move even farther to the left. IMHO what caused these nearly simultaneous events is the most interesting question about the media out there.
An aside of sorts: how large a part if any, could the general decline and decay of our culture have played in hastening the movement of the media to the left? Or was it the other way around?
See my post #34. It’s a rather simplistic theory of mine and backed up by no data. However, Luce was one of the single most influential “media moguls” of the era and he was somewhat conservative. All the national politicians were scared to death of him and made no move without considering what he was going to write about their actions.
Ping to my #53.