May 13, 2025
The Counterproductive Move To Consolidate Conservative Media
By Andrea Widburg
From my perch at American Thinker, rumors sometimes come my way. One of them, seemingly a solid one, is that a well-financed effort is underway to acquire several major conservative outlets, including Human Events, The Post Millennial, and The Daily Caller, to roll them up under a single owner. According to what I’ve heard, the forces behind this effort are donors sympathetic to the vision of the Republican Party that Liz Cheney, Mike Pence, Paul Ryan, and Mitt Romney espouse.
As a matter of principle, I’m deeply opposed to the idea of a consortium controlling multiple once-independent websites. I’m also perplexed by the consortium’s choice for its figurehead (assuming the rumors are true), because the man chosen, while a great journalist, has a track record of big, expensive dreams that he has yet to realize.
If the rumors about the buyers’ ideological leanings are correct, these are people still invested in the stale ideas and feckless policies that broke the Republican party during the Bush years. Today’s conservative thought leaders, who have huge videos/podcasts and X followings, actively support or are open to Trump’s policies. The Bush-era Republicans, stuck with marginalized ideas that cannot compete in the conservative realm, have decided to skip improving their ideas and to opt, instead, for buying influence.
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