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- parseError, on 10/12/2007, -19/+60Please check the source. Checking for yourself will save you from speaking too early...
http://www.research2000.us/2006/09/21/talk-show-radio-accessibility-follow-up-survey-results/
and from www.Research2000.us:
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RESEARCH 2000 is a nonpartisan full service research firm that conducts surveys and focus groups for advocacy groups, trade associations, businesses and over 300 news media organizations.
Our Polls can be seen on CNN’S “Inside Politics” and are also mentioned frequently in the National Journal’s “Political Hotline”, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Wall Street Journal. Visit our In the News Page to see some online examples of this. - sbrown123, on 10/12/2007, -12/+47Out of curiosity, what the hell does Janeane Garafolo have to do with anything?! Don't get me wrong, I found your comment humorous to say the least, but I don't understand the reasoning for performing a character attack on someone when the actual issue is the lack of dissenting views on conservative radio stations. It gets really old that when someone talks about conservatism in America we have to hear about Clinton, Micheal Moore, the Dixie Chicks, or some other conservative hate icon that has a really, really slim link to the subject at hand.
- The_Wallbanger, on 10/12/2007, -6/+39Normally I would say that Hannity and Limbaugh are more popular and have more people calling in, and that makes it difficult to get on the air, period. But then I read that Hannity's crew tells callers to call the "liberal line"? WTF??
- goostoff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25As a convservative, Savage is way too nutty for me. I have heard him raise good arguments before, but honestly, 90% of the consanants and vowels that flow from his mouth are weaved together with an insane fiber.
- shawnfassett, on 10/12/2007, -19/+36DeadDragon, PLEASE read (Republican) John Dean's book 'Conservatives Without Conscience'.
- porkstacker, on 10/12/2007, -9/+25Not to mention, Michael Savage also makes racist comments toward African-Americans.
- dankoleary, on 10/12/2007, -8/+23Ed Shultz is awesome. He's not partisan so much as he is just a good american that cares about where our country is headed. If he is on in your market, I'd recommend you listen to him for an afternoon. Any guy that loves football, fishing, and hunting is ok with me.
- trenchcoat, on 10/12/2007, -28/+42That's because liberal talk shows need all the listeners they can get.
- geoffp, on 10/12/2007, -13/+25@DeadDragon: Dugg down for brainless ad hominem argument (look it up). Have a great day!
- luccid, on 10/12/2007, -12/+23Right.... because a radio talk show hosts speak for all conservatives.
- pmr12002, on 10/12/2007, -24/+35This story is patently false. I have heard Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh take calls from Liberals quite often. The only this this story merits is being marked as inaccurate.
- uncleFester, on 10/12/2007, -12/+22further, rush takes liberal calls AHEAD of anyone else; you move to the front of his line. if you LISTEN to him even semi-frequently, you know this.
.. his problem is the line's so busy almost nobody can get through.
-r (not in 100% agreement with ANYBODY)
(though I do usually enjoy his take on things) - helix400, on 10/12/2007, -10/+20"My partisans are better than your partisans!"
"Ya, but mine can beat yours up"
"Touche" - jbenson2, on 10/12/2007, -29/+38Due to miniscule audience, the liberal talk show hosts don't have any choice.
To avoid "dead air", they have to take calls from anyone. - gnomon, on 10/12/2007, -8/+17@Teddystiltskins
Replace "Liberals" with "Conservatives" and you still make a great point. Hell, go for the gold: replace it with "people." I'll agree with you on each account. (Partisan politics are stupid). - labmouse42, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12@DeadDragon
"Considering here the liberals here tend to negDigg any conservative comment, yeah real open mind there!!"
The difference is that the liberals here will read a comment before making digging it down. If you seek proof, look at the amount of people who quote you, even if your article is dugg down into oblivion. - brianbennett, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Limbaugh takes a handful of liberal callers, some educated, others not so much. It's fun to count the seconds until they resort to name-calling. Rush clearly enjoys it.
- flippinjeremy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12Good point. That could be true or not, either way...
This story is lame in itself anyways... Every talk-show host is just stroking his or her agenda. Don't get me started on Network news...
The problem is that people rely on Talk Shows or Networks TV to get their news. And its usually from a source that favors their views. PEOPLE RESEARCH MORE THAN ONE SIDE OF A TOPIC, don't eat what libs/conservs want to feed you. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This is true for my local liberal talk radio (Progressive Talk 680 Memphis). They invite conservatives and others to call in and debate. Now, its not to say they arent exactly always fair, though, as they will usually put someone on who is perhaps on the far right instead of more of a moderate conservative.
Most of the radio hosts on my station are fair in letting their opponents get their point across, but there are some which I cannot stand to listen to (*cough* Leon Grey) who begins to turn a person's words around on them before they can even finish their first sentence. Then he cuts their mike off if they become agitated because he is so unfair. - axiomflash, on 10/12/2007, -12/+18i do
- argoff, on 10/12/2007, -23/+29I'm sorry, but liberal democrats are not open minded. Open minded would be to let me save for my own retirement, and plan it how I want. Closed minded, is coercing me and my employer to participate in a government ponzi scheme called social security. Open minded would be to let me decide how I share my money with the poor, closed minded is using the coercive power of government to force me to participate in programs they plan out. Open minded would mean letting me get my foot in the door at a company, even if it meant accepting less than the minimum wage to get in - closed minded doesn't give me that option at all. Open minded, would mean being open minded to challenging beliefs - like maybe coercing taxpayers to fund public education destroys accountability and makes it so that it's not worth it - liberals would never consider that, hell they don't even consider school vouchers. Open minded would mean things like accepting peoples dissenting opinions about global warming - just try that with a Liberal and see how you get treated. Open minded, my ass. Most liberal democrats I know are the most closed minded self centered people I know.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+15I do as well. It beats the pants off the local conservative talking heads.
- tacroy, on 10/12/2007, -8/+14I think that this "study" is rather silly. Firstly it doesn't take into effect the single most important deciding factor on whether your call is taken: call volume. I've not heard of most of the host mentioned, however I HAVE heard of rush Limbaugh (who hasn't) and would suspect that his audience would be quite a bit larger than the others. If they made 15 calls to a host that only had 100 calls a show then they have a 15% chance to be on air regardless of opinion. Now if they make 15 calls to a show that has 10,000 calls a show......well its significantly less regardless of opinion.
This survey when looked at mathematically does not say "conservative hosts are close minded" it only says "shows with larger audiences are less likely to accept your call".
I do NOT know the exact audiences of each host, so if someone could show that all of the hosts mentioned have a similar amount of callers per show THEN this survey might mean something. (And that may be the case) But to jump to "They are close minded" shows the bias and blind devotion of the survey takers. - HIPAA_Notic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Other than Ed Schultz, all of the radio talk show hosts are loud, obnoxious, and do not really listen to callers with differing opinions. Rhodes is like a female Limbaugh who tends to be more intellectually honest but resorts to brow beating, yelling, name calling, and hanging up on people who do not share her opinions. She is bright, but she is as cocky and conceited as Limbaugh.
If you want good and usually balanced political commentary and diverse call in opinions watch cspan or listen to NPR. - Barnstormer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9I just did a little survey of the non-technical articles that are getting flagged. And in every case it's a "liberal" point of view that's being objected to.
The tag should read "[Reported by a clique of NeoCon Diggers as Possibly Inaccurate]" - SanTe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6"Warning: The Content in this Article May be Inaccurate"
May be, but isn't. - HarryBauzonia, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8When the opinion is not formed from facts, the opinion is inaccurate.
If I poll everyone here at work on whether fire trucks should be painted green, the overwhelming opinion may be yes. If I then use that information to state "Americans Are More Accepting of Green Fire Trucks", then my opinion is going to be inaccurate, because I'm presenting the color preferences of a dozen rednecks in various states of drunkeness as the preferences of the entire nation.
Use that poll on a website run by an organizatin that advocates the use of green paint, and you've got inaccurate propaganda.
Sooooo.....I'm digging the article down as innaccurate. - riverside71, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9why would u want to call in? they have their talking points handed to them by Rove in the morning. .they go through them.. disagreement is not accepted.. and they'll make sure to keep repeating themself over and over again no matter what argument is presented..
Liberal radio should learn something and start acting the same.. it's a successful model cuz people are idiots anyway.. they'd believe ANYTHING as long as it's repeated out loud a lot of times.. - uttles, on 10/12/2007, -16/+19This study is flawed. I've recently started listening to 750 here in Atlanta (they have Hannity on daily, I prefer Bortz) and I can say with 100% accuracy that they take plent of liberal calls. What's more important is that they actually let the caller speak, finish their sentences, and make their (however ill-formed) opinion be heard. I've had the displeasure of catching liberal talkshows from time to time, and they only accept conservative calls so that they can cut them off mid-sentence, make some sort of remark about bible-thumping and incest, then go on ranting about their own opinion, not letting the caller express theirs.
Additionally, I would imagine liberal talk show hosts have to accept whatever calls they can get since nobody is listening to their shows in the first place. - krewemaynard, on 10/12/2007, -18/+21So, how does this relate to AirAmerica's bankruptcy? Tolerant or not, no one is listening, and they're broke.
- MaloderousRex, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6that's because the dissenting views on lilberal radio are closer to correct than the alternative.
... Zing! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I have an idea, lets vote in a Democrat and start fixing everything Bush did wrong.
- Edge00, on 10/12/2007, -15/+18These findings are hard for me to believe for three reasons:
1. I would say that at least 10% of the phone calls Hannity puts on the air disagree with him, so from my experience that zero out 15 calls doesn't seem like a large enough sample
2. The shear number of people call make it hard for anyone to get on. Besides people with liberal viewpoints are less likely to listen to Hannity or Rush, thus they are less likely to call. I have heard people who say they have been calling for 5+ years and this is their first time getting on the show.
3. Call screeners are there for a reason. How do we know what reason those "test" callers where screened out. They are unlikely to put someone on if they are using vulgar language or if they don't make any relative points. For example if some one calls and is cursing or is just repeating the same old "I hate Bush", they probably won't get on. - Corvidae, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Why do people rubber neck at car wrecks? Why is Jerry Springer still on the air? Why is wrestling still on the air?
People are fascinated by the bizarre and inane, often with a bit of violence thrown in. - RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -39/+42Janeane Garafolo is so open-minded that she supports Scientology's efforts to "detoxify" ailing ground zero workers. In fact, she quit her radio job over this issue just to prove how open-minded she really is:
"Garofalo came under fire [3] from her listeners for her comments on her April 28, 2006 show supporting Scientology-linked "New York Rescue Worker's Detoxification Program,[4] a questionable treatment for workers now suffering ailments from 9/11 clean-up efforts in New York City.
"Garofalo announced that she would be leaving her co-host position on The Majority Report on the broadcast of Friday, July 14, 2006. Although several reasons for her departure were cited (including her outside acting responsibilities), the relationship between Garofalo and co-host Sam Seder had become increasingly strained, owed largely to Garofalo's promotion of a Scientology-linked treatment program for firefighters and rescue workers in New York City. Garofalo responded to Seder's opposition, suggesting that he wouldn't have a problem with the program if it were linked to Jews rather than Scientologists. Seder, who is Jewish, and his producer walked off the set in angry protest."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janeane_Garofalo - rokinroj, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10@argoff
Wow! Do you listen to much talk radio? Reading your post was like reading a transcript from the Rush Limbaugh show.
Try this synopsis on for size...
Conservative politics = a better world for conservatives.
Liberal politics = a better world for everyone. - vertinox, on 10/12/2007, -9/+12Maybe because liberals are panzies and are too chicken to stand up to disenting views!
I jest I jest... But by definition liberal means you are open to other ideas wheras conservative means you like to stay the same.
But no one really knows what the modern day definitions really mean. - HIPAA_Notic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3No, a sample of 15 is not necessarily invalid if it is representitave of the population that is was drawn from.
That being said, it is questionable whether or not the sample is representative. It didn't appear to be a random sample. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7If you're trying to talk to a chimp, you're going to have a horrible show.
- Web_Weasel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Talk radio is little more then a place for emotional appeals to peoples baser instincts. I've listened to Rush, AA and others and they are all a waste of time. Talk radio does not inform nor provide a forum for discussion, just rants and name calling. All in all, talk radio does more harm then good.
Ignore them all, let them die, replace them with something of value. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7do you actually think a conservative site would talk about this study?
- sweetnjguy29, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I gave up on talk radio about 2 years ago. I got bored of the shouting matches, poorly researched facts, and complete idiocy. This goes for both liberal and conservative talk shows, and NPR (although NPR talk shows do tend to explore an issue/topic much more thoroughly and balanced than normal commercial talk shows, they tend to be idiotic too)
- Nitro2985, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7We need to take call load into account. For instance, the liberal talk shows might have a lower call load making them less picky about who they will accept. The more people you have calling in, the greater the chance that any idividual caller will be denied access to the line. However, the ratio of people who actually appear on the show with supporting verses those with opposing viewpoints might still be the same. Also, I don't really know how they calculated the margin of error for this "study." It seems like a sample size of only 15 from each show might leave us with a huge margin of error which negates any apparent differences.
- Popdmb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Above post mocks the situation perfectly. If you're listening to partisan radio, we should probably start addressing that problem first.
- evilbob333, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Conservatives also have an order of magnitude more listeners than their liberal counterparts. They can and have to be more discriminating who gets on the air. Remember, for most of them its a business. And the better ones don't let inarticulate people on the air cause that just makes bad radio.
- dortdruben, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Does anyone else feel like this constant battle between liberals and conservatives is just a distraction employed by those in power to keep the minions busy? Same w/ abortion, gay marriage, etc. I think we've got more pressing issues at hand in this country, and we're wasting time and energy on ***** like this! Gays can't get a marriage recognized by the state as it is, so why waste time "re-defining" marriage on state constitutions? Distraction and huge waste of time and money. Some people think having an abortion is murder, some don't. This issue will never be solved because everyone has a different belief system and philosophical idea of when life truly begins. Act within your beliefs, and let others act within theirs. I'm tired of being distracted from other huge, important issues facing our country by this ***** that gets force fed to us in a continuous, never-ending cycle.
- HMTKSteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Does Air America get 15 callers in a day?
- devzer0, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6This is absolutely accurate.
Further, the liberal shows won't say things like "pull the bone out of your nose and call me back," as Rush Limbaugh once yelled to an African-American caller. - FJBill, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7Ask Joe Lieberman how open-minded liberals are about opposing viewpoints.
Liberals accusing the conservatives of marching in lockstep? Pot, kettle on line 1. - VolatileWhimsy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hmm, I listen to quite a bit of talk radio.. And of course I listen to the conservative talk radio... And I know they do answer questions to ppl that are liberal but I also do know it is limited... :/ I don't know about the liberal side, but I DOUBT very seriously its any different..
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