Why Is There So Much Right-Wing Media?

PragerU, The Daily Wire, countless far-right talk shows, YouTube channels, think tanks, and online magazines. Where are they all coming from, and why are they all so well funded? Let's take a look at the groups bankrolling far-right rhetoric and what they stand to gain from platforming these people.

Why Is There So Much Right-Wing Media? – Second Thought

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Citations and Further Reading:

Yugopnik’s video on the online right

Visualizations of the Kochtopus

Wilks money dump into PragerU and Daily Wire

Daily Wire/PragerU recent highlights

NPR story on Daily Wire reach

Stochastic terrorism

Matt Walsh 7 HB1

Koch support to DeSantis

DeSantis Daily Wire support

Koch support to Daily Wire figures

Koch support to Daily Caller

Daily Caller highlights

The Atlantic

Koch Time Investment

LA Times

Stand Together

Campus “free speech” groups

Campus research centers

Think tanks propped up in all 50 states which got a combined $83 million dollars from Koch-funded orgs and their allies in 2011

Some notables

Pushing Republicans to the far right

Mont Pelerin society

Lobbying

Anti-muslim & anti-LGBT hate groups

[watchingshows]

For a bunch of people claimed to be silenced, right-winger sure have TONS of media representations.

[Necrapocalypse]

Actual left wing voices will never get the same level of backing no matter what conspiracy theories others try to spin, because it goes against the class interests of the most wealthy. If we somehow do it'll be from a critical mass of popular support.

[andreysc]

The reach is international, not only in the US. It's impressive how that amount of money can do for right-wing media.

[katarzynaszajkowski]

Why is it even legal for politicians to donate to press organizations....? Ridiculous

[Rodrifuuu]

Easiest way to keep people divided. Distract them with a culture war.

[FigureOnAStick]

I'm starting to think that concentrating the vast majority of humans wealth in the hands of several dozen sociopaths is actually a bad idea 🤔🤔🤔

[bradl.]

"If our struggle was meaningless then their propaganda would be meaningless, keep fighting."

[louis_the_hedgehog]

Nothing says "I'm being oppressed" like being paid boatloads of money to say what you're saying.

[hithere]

Amazing video. Most 'independent media' is really just corporate media when you actually follow the money.

[emiebex]

If Far-Right Conservative Christians followed the actual teaching of Jesus their Heads would explode. 💁🏿‍♂️🤯

[rachelgray]

A bunch of my uni professors served on the board of the “Koch Center for Leadership and Ethics” (an oxymoron). Those same teachers constantly talked about deregulation, praised SWEATSHOPS, and railed against unions.

[Phi]

It's funny how billionaire-funded right-wing media is never critical of billionaires. What a strange coincidence.

[burner]

The entire rightwing of the political spectrum consists of two distinct groups.
The rich and the suckers

[Aware_Bear]

The short answer is because propaganda requires repetition and reiteration from multiple sources.

[chrismtauer]

I took a summer job with AFP back in 2016 (I was in college). At first, it was just a job. Then I found out how obviously skewed they wanted their data, because the questions were clearly biased. They were push-polls.

I spent a lot of time and research finding the best way to alter their questions to remove bias and almost entirely flipped their results in my area.

[joeywild]

While I appreciated how informative this was, it’s hard to watch videos like this without becoming utterly depressed and frustrated :(

[zukocawe]

"We're being silenced, " said Ben Shapiro, speaking into a microphone to an audience of millions...

[stevensanders]

Bro, you kill me with that balance of classy presentation and humor. 😂

[benjaminduval]

I was trying to tell people about this in 2016.

The idea that entire office floors are populated by well educated, well paid people pondering the best meme to spam on Twitter was unbelievable.

[antonioMaiquezPenadez]

Im from Spain, we have the same problem here. No matter what you like or search, right-wing media is always present without searching. If you wanna see left-wing media you have to search a lot.