Daniel Quinn
Jason Lefkowitz"There is a pervasive billionaire assumption that mainstream legacy journalism is 'liberal,' and there’s a big market for news that gets outside of the liberal bubble. That billionaire view is simply wrong. The nature of our current political moment is that the American right today is anti-empirical and anti-civic. That’s why when the Post or now CBS News goes searching for these underserved viewers hungering for journalism outside the liberal bubble, they fail. Because in a basic sense the current American right simply isn’t interested in news or journalism as most of us conceive it."
The above-described tendency is not new. I believe it was a key contributor to the radicalization of Tucker Carlson.
When he started the Daily Caller in 2010, Carlson made a lot of noise about how he intended it to do real journalism -- real journalism from a conservative perspective, but still, real journalism.
He stopped saying those things not long after the Caller went live. I think that was because it took actually trying to sell a news product to conservatives for him to realize that conservatives had no interest whatsoever in anything other than having their prejudices tickled