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1/04/2003 05:48:00 PM | Timothy Conservative and liberal networks Does this stuff about campus republicans ring true for you guys? Any ideas how liberals can build networks? I've been thinking about similar issues ever since I wrote an article for The Nation on liberal campus publications (which hopefully should come out this month!): Recently, there's been sort of a clamor for, you know, liberals in the "liberal media". Much has been thrown about in an attempt to figure out how to get liberals into the same sort of paradigmatic roles that so many conservatives are in now, from talk radio to print to television. I mean, honestly, even accused liberal Dan Rather, face of one of the most watched news programs in America, isn't as creepingly liberal as, say, a Fox News anchor is conservative. The first thing is - a network of liberals. Not a TV network, but a real-life network. Fully-fledged think tanks, "Young Democrat" organizations, full ideological connection in a variety of mediums outside of the media. Going to one of those liberal-elite academies of the East Coast, I find myself constantly marveled at how organized the eight College Republicans are compared to the vast majority of not-angry people. They have a small PAC for local candidates, ins with the local Republican Party, and even a national organization that gets them such lovable crazies as David Horowitz and this "ex-gay" guy a year or so ago. By contrast, the College Democrats, though well-organized, have none of the outside companionship that the Republicans do - even in the newspaper, there's a well-coordinated effort to have conservative columnists (actually, it's affirmative action, but don't tell them that), and it works. We hear about this terrible, terrible discrimination against conservatives that's entirely anecdotal, and sparing at that. But it still dominates discourse to an untold degree. perma link |
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