Originally posted by NHH
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Many of these new reactionaries in France have become mainstream (eg Eric Zemmour) and are now ubiquitous. If one radio channel decides to ignore him, another two step into the breach. Even those who have been more or less sidelined by the main TV and radio channels still manage to thrive elsewhere, it's the age of the multimedia after all, so plenty of minor TV/radio channels, YouTube, own Internet site, conferences, book deals etc. They adapt and disseminate their vile ideology in different ways. Whenever they find themselves less popular and pushed away on the media fringes or marginalised, they come up with some incendiary statement that propel them back under the spotlights, at least temporarily.
It is an industry, so newcomers seek to emulate the pros, all the time. When these pros are discarded and fall out of flavour for whatever reason (too radical, too old-fashioned or they’ve scared away key advertisers) then are replaced by "fresher" products from the Outrage economy, who also start low key to gain access to the mainstream media and up the ante as they gain notoriety.
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