Why Pro-Trump Conservative Media Should Worry | PJ Media

Why Pro-Trump Conservative Media Should Worry | PJ Media

Christian Toto writes:

"I didn't give up on print newspapers even when the web starting delivering all the news I needed to my laptop.

"I kept buying the daily paper, tucking it under my arm and taking it everywhere I went that day. Sure, I could find it all online, but I loved the feel of the paper in my hands. It also connected me to my early days as a newspaper reporter, eager to read my colleagues' work.

"Not anymore.

"Now, when I see the newspaper on our front lawn, cocooned in its pristine orange wrapper, I just keep on walking. I'll pick it up later. Maybe.

"What day is recycling again?

"Consider that a warning to conservative media outlets serving as Donald Trump's de facto campaign arm. You're destroying habits that have been in places for years. In some cases, decades....

"For roughly 25 years if I was near a radio from noon to 3 p.m. I turned on "The Rush Limbaugh Show." I first heard Limbaugh through my dad. We'd sit in the car together, wolfing down Sabrett hot dogs and listening to "talent ... on loan ... from Gawd."

"I was hooked. Like father, like son.

"As I got older, listening to Limbaugh became instinctual. It was like walking into a darkened room and reaching for the light switch.

"No more.

"Months of hearing Limbaugh, THE voice of conservatism, downplay, ignore or somehow spin Trump's antics changed all that. Now, I turn the radio to a competitor. Or I don't turn it on at all.

"Twenty-plus years of entrenched behavior? Gone, unlikely to return."