| | That's more than you can say for Time, which, as CQ mentions, just dropped Kristol and Krauthammer, the last surviving conservatives in their lineup.
I have a theory about what's happend to the old media in the past few years. Superficially you might expect that after Jayson Blair, the Rather memos, the backfired sliming of Schwarzenegger and all the rest, and the consequent loss of audience and reputation, they'd try to fix their problems. Instead, they get worse. The LA Times, which I used to read almost every day, has come to resemble an American Spectator parody. Methinks this is a business strategy. They've realized that, since broadcast deregulation and the arrival of the internet, they are not longer the de facto national church they were back in the days of Luce and Cronkite. In response to this, they're retrenching. Their audience is mostly middle-aged and elderly leftists, so that's what they play to.
As I am not the first to observe, neocons have taken the place that communists used to occupy in some people's imaginations 50 years ago: a shadowy conspiracy, bent on world domination by devious means, inflitrating of our institutions, insinuating themselves into the corridors of power, interlocking their directorates and so on and on, as conspirators will do. The quotes in the CQ column bear this out.
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