Badler's essay on the complicated relationship conservatives have with television gets at a pretty fundamental incoherence in the Right's coalition. As he puts it, "if ratings drive the "if it leads it bleeds" policy, then what Bozell and Medved really hate is the will of the free market."
This, I think, accounts for some of the Right's obsession with "liberal" Hollywood. You can't have a movement that fashions itself the voice of Middle America evincing constant contempt and outrage for Middle America's preferences. So, instead, the culture's hedonistic deterioration is painted as a conscious campaign pursued by a conspiracy of gay liberal jews. Transferring responsibility for the salaciousness of entertainment away from the market and onto a cabal allows the Right to blast culture without facing up to their base's role in shaping it. This keeps it alive as an issue, but ensures it will never succeed as a cause. As Clive Barnes said, "Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."