Clayton E. Cramer
2009-05-20 08:27:33
“The GOP is not losing in virtually all demographic groups because of a lack of entertainment value. It is losing because it does not speak to the very real concerns of the citizens of the USA.”
You seem not to have understood my point. Most of the population isn’t paying attention to public policy issues, presented as such. They allow entertainment to set the agenda–and because the left utterly dominates the production of entertainment, they set the agenda.
Imagine if television shows and movies had presented the role of government in forcing lenders to make subprime mortgages–and the role that the large scale defaults played in bringing on this crisis. Would this influence the nature of popular understanding?
