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2003-05-20 Fifth Column

The liberals are coming, the liberals are coming!

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Posted by Cyber Sarge 2003-05-20 10:25 am|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 For liberal radio there's Ron Kuby and .... Ron Kuby. What a formidable line-up. One of the multitude of problems with liberals is that they only react through whining and bitching and fail to offer alternatives. Who wants to turn on the radio and listen to that? I can get that at home.

Posted by ColoradoConservative 2003-05-20 11:15:11|| 2003-05-20 11:15:11|| Front Page Top

#2 CC: My car stereo is busted and only picking up FM now. For liberal talk, check out NPR, paid for with your tax dollars. There are some articles that are fairly balanced, but they're few and far between the "why does George Bush want to take milk from babies and health care from the poor just so his rich friends don't have to pay their fair share of taxes on dividends" discussions. I've gotta get the stereo fixed - it's killing me

Posted by Frank G 2003-05-20 11:32:26|| 2003-05-20 11:32:26|| Front Page Top

#3 "Centrist and left-wing talk radio is still an emerging product with a huge unserved market."

Unserved? Rather, Jennings, Brokaw, 60 Minutes, 20/20, and the rest of 3 major networks, plus CNN, the NYT, WashPost, LA Times, and most of the rest of the media is unserved?

AM air belongs to the Peoples and if there's a market for lefties, they are welcome to their share. But they don't need to tune in the low end of the dial, just to find their views represented in public.

Lefties use radios for music. Criminey, if they listened to and thought about the issues all day, they wouldn't be leftists.

Posted by Mark IV 2003-05-20 12:18:06|| 2003-05-20 12:18:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Bo-o-o-o-oring...

clueless, too. Yup, it's them danged liberals agin, ma!

Posted by mojo 2003-05-20 12:50:46|| 2003-05-20 12:50:46|| Front Page Top

#5 The dems have been contemplating how to counter the center right/right radio phenomena for some time. A decade from now they will be chattering about how to counter the center/right phenomena of the internet blogs also.

Unfortunately their shrill, irrational, emotion based philosophy which promotes class and race warfare, special rights for certain groups, big government and PC (intolerance) doesn't lend itself well to the demographics of the radio audience.

Posted by Jonesy 2003-05-20 17:23:09|| 2003-05-20 17:23:09|| Front Page Top

#6 A majority of the folks who listen to talk radio are driving either two of from work when they tune in.... which means they have jobs they have to communte to. Which means they probably own homes. Which means they pay morgages and property tax. Which means they are probably not liberals.
Hence, there is probably no audience for liberal talk radio.

Posted by Secret Master 2003-05-20 17:51:13|| [www.budgetwarrior.com] 2003-05-20 17:51:13|| Front Page Top

#7 DING, DING, DING, DING! We have a winner! Secret Master has found the reason that Liberal radio does not and will not ever work. Because Liberals do not work. After a hard day of work who wants to listen to somebody tell them why THEY have to pay more taxes?

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2003-05-20 18:31:12|| 2003-05-20 18:31:12|| Front Page Top

#8 "I give this 'experiment about six months before they pull the plug."

Big whoop. And this makes one damned bit of difference in the long run exactly how? The moron writing the article said it himself: "mergers that will help wipe out the few remaining small, local radio/TV stations and newspapers..." The mega-corps will have control over everything everyone sees, hears, and reads, 24/7, 365.24/year. Canned music, canned opinion, canned news, unresponsive and unresponsible to local audiences, responsive and responsible only to mega-corp HQ.
The FCC is selling the public airwaves for thirty pieces of silver, and you all seem to think that's just fine and dandy because the "liberals" won't last.
All it takes is one corporate takeover to change Clear Channel from conservative to "liberal." Think about that. Think about the anti-American bias on the major broadcast networks becoming the norm for radio and newspapers, too. Big Brother Is Watching You.
Or maybe think about trying to stop the FCC from allowing more mergers, and keeping your local media responsive and responsible to *you* and *your* local concerns, and not to some mega-corp who-knows-where.
www.fcc.gov
Two commissioners are Democrats, three are Republicans. Click on their names to find their bios.
Here are their email addresses:
Chairman Michael K. Powell: mpowell@fcc.gov
Commissioner Kathleen Q. Abernathy: kabernat@fcc.gov
Commissioner Michael J. Copps: mcopps@fcc.gov
Commissioner Kevin J. Martin: kjmweb@fcc.gov
Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein: jadelste@fcc.gov

Posted by Silverdrake 2003-05-20 22:50:31|| 2003-05-20 22:50:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Mark IV,

There are still smaller newspapers that don't spew the PC party line. I really don't want to see my local newspaper gulped down by some damn-yankee Eastern news conglomerate, thank-you-very-much. The battle is *not* over *or* lost, but it pretty much will just be a matter of time until it is if the FCC allows further mergers.
If all you can do is whine that it *has* been lost, then you've surrendered and might as well send in your membership donation to the leftist-totalitarian party of your choice.
And if that suggestion sticks in your craw, then maybe instead you'll fire off some "No more mergers!" emails to the addys I provided above.

Posted by Silverdrake 2003-05-21 01:03:30|| 2003-05-21 01:03:30|| Front Page Top

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