Megan McArdle
If conservative media had the control liberals imagine, Trump would have been knocked out of the 2016 primary. Right wing radio, print, and television all went after him, and were disciplined by their audiences for it.
Nate Silver
Yeah, media critics don't get this. Media sentiment is like 90% demand-side driven and 10% supply-side. It's a business that operates on thin margins but has lots of metrics about what is and isn't working. It's mostly reacting to cultural and political trends, not causing them.