From the beginning of the chapter:
If there was one thing conservatives could agree on in the early postwar years, it was the urgent need for the creation of conservative media. There was ferment in the evolution of conservative ideas, but no forum where such ideas could be exchanged and shared with a larger audience. True enough, conservative viewpoints were expressed daily in the Hearst papers, in the New York Daily News, William Loeb's Manchester Union Leader, and in the Chicago Tribune, which was the most widely read newspaper in America. They were presented in the American Legion Magazine and in the pages of widely circulated periodicals such as Reader's Digest and Life. But such journals could not serve as standard-bearers of a political movement.
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