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- vanderpost, on 10/11/2007, -3/+17Public radio, A.M. particularly, is a free-market, capitalist, business venture. Anyone with enough money to buy a radio station can broadcast music, talk, info, etc...what is programmed, what is broadcast is determined by advertising revenue. If a talker, music programming attracts listeners, then the programming attracts advertisers. The more listeners, the more the station can charge for advertising. Limbaugh has 20 million listeners a week, on 600+ stations. He's the Big Daddy of talk radio. Air America made it to 70 stations, and negligable listener audience after four years of private donor support, and finally declared bankruptcy. No one forces listeners to tune into a certain station. In America, we still have freedom of choice---but not if the "Progressives" have their way! They are hoping to have Big Government intervene on their behalf---translation: force the "equal" time they can't generate, 'cause listeners simply don't find liberal talkers compelling, entertaining or interesting. Would you want to have to listen to Al Franken or Randi Rhodes for three hours! Geezus!!! Gawd help us!!! If the liberals had their way, socialism---govt control of media, etc---would replace free-enterprise market capitatlism/democracy...
- markgl, on 10/11/2007, -4/+16Air America fell apart. it sure as hell ain't gonna change. you can't force companies to think liberal what the crap! thats like asking the media to stop being so liberal and to be fair.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+15Actually, there's a very simple answer. Conservatives, as a whole, are generally more interested in politics than liberals. Owners of radio stations aren't going to air something that has no audience. That's just bad business.
- Euangelion, on 10/11/2007, -7/+16Typical libs, use the government to force your failed policies on the country. Good little Stalinists.
- demicritter, on 10/11/2007, -4/+12I haven't seen or heard of one instant where anybody was forced to listen to conservative radio. I've listened to Randy Rhodes and found her to be crude and very un-funny. Liberal radio has largely failed because they deliver a crap product plus the liberal base aren't really active enough or care enough about their fellow man to get involved. It's easier for them to bitch, complain and try to change the laws than to change people's hearts and minds because their ideas equate to mind-control and slavery.
- dukrous, on 10/11/2007, -4/+12My favorite bit in this report is the use of the word 'progressive' instead of 'liberal.' Even in their own groups with reports meant for their supporters they cannot be honest about who they are.
- demicritter, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8The liberals don't own their own businesses or aren't invested enough in politics to even have a clue. They're sort of like house plants. Immobile, unthinking and only care about someone else providing their care and feeding. They just want their liberal radio fed to them like a farmer spreads manure on a field.
- netmugger, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11How ironic the study was sponsored by 'The Center for American Progress' and 'Free Press' ?! A report by organizations for 'progress' and 'free press' which seek to limit the free market and free speech?! It's is notworthy that they left out NPR from the study - the government funded liberal leaning talk and news programming heard on public radio stations. Which by the way are quite successful ratings wise. If liberal talk was successful on commercial radio in generating revenue and ratings you can bet radio station owners would air the product. They are not in the business of radio to lose money. Astounding propoganda this is.
- RonDAdams, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11"The new report — entitled “The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio” — raises serious questions about whether the companies licensed to broadcast over the public radio airwaves are serving the listening needs of all Americans. "
One question they should ask but they probably didn't, and that is which shows have the highest number of listeners? Seems to me the public radio waves are best served by giving the listeners what they want to hear. But, apparently, this makes the "progressives" (liberals) unhappy. - brianbennett, on 10/11/2007, -4/+10Ever listen to a liberal radio show? It's generally non-stop Bush/America bashing. People don't want to hear that ***** day after day, it wears you down. Right wing talk does a much better job of offering entertainment (what talk radio is), real debate and ideas for change, and of course its tone is generally more optimistic. One need only look at Air America's ratings to see that people just don't much care for liberal talk.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Make no mistake. They are Secular Progressive Fascists. They claim to believe in your rights and freedoms, but only if you think and say what they think and say. There's a reason 90% of talk radio is conservative. That's what the majority of the people want to hear. Secular Progressive Fascists don't care what the majority want to hear. They want to shut the opposition down any way they can. If that means attempting to stack the supreme court, or get fascist policy put in place, so be it. These people that call themselves Liberal and Progressive are the enemy of all that America was founded on.
- demicritter, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6To a liberal the term "liberal" is like krytonite to Superman, thus the more palatable "progressive" term. Personally, I like "libtard" which embodies the trite, small-mindedness of the typical on-line liberal personality or "demicritter" my handle, which embodies their pack-like mentality and penchant for gorging themselves on a topic and then laying about for long periods of time savoring their quarry.
- kensfrequency, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8What exactly are these people whining about? There's only a weak comparison to be made between talk radio and the news media anyways. Talk radio consists of programs where people air their views on a range of topics selected by the host. That's a forum, not news reporting. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, the NY Times, LA Times, Time, Newsweek et al are the ones tasked with presenting the newsworthy events of the day to the public, something they are incapable of doing without a liberal bias. The one television network that doesn't toe the liberal line (isn't that being "progressive" within the context of network news?) is Fox and they are openly ostracized by liberal Democrats. Talk radio??? NPR wrote the book on biased radio programming and they receive federal funding to help them do it! How much fairer can one get?
- ladagency, on 10/11/2007, -5/+10In liberal New Mexico, our conservative news talk station has a liberal co-host. He had his own show, briefly . . . but I caught him broadcasting on Clear Channel over 5 states rubbish concerning a police brutality case. I called in to correct his ridiculous reliance on an L.A. Times article and he demanded what my sources were . . . "The original holding from the 9th Circuit." I answered. His show was soon cancelled after I complained to the station manager.
There are some brilliant liberal broadcast people out there; from Alan Colmes to Tim Russert. But their liberal bent distorts their reason into a kind of manic, obsessive insanity that is fascinating in the verbosity of its hatred and obfuscation. Their knowledge of history is of an unnatural progression . . . Freedom towards Regulation, Individuality towards Diversity, Strength and Integrity towards Diplomacy . . . Marriage and Family towards Gay and Alternative homes . . . Rule of Law towards Political Gotchas . . . and every answer to problems they create in their own minds have the opposite result, of poverty and failure.
Liberal radio will finally succeed when broadcast over loudspeakers in a National Gulag . . . 1984 style. - HernandoV, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8Diversity for talk radio! Makes perfect sense. Level the playing field. Ratings should not count.
Next, I want to see more Mexicans playing in the NBA. This is America's sport. Diversity is all that we want, get rid of the scoreboard! - skiziks, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."—George W. Bush, Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005
And all those Conservative talk radio programs are needed to catapult the propaganda and keep the masses brainwashed. - elebrio, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7Business is bad. Big Brother knows best.
- Willagorilla, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Silly fascists. Democracy is for humans.
85% of the news that we get comes from 5 billionaires/corporations. And those "folks"/institutions are ALL in league with Neo-Con corporate agenda. This has nothing (I repeat, NADA) to do with "supply and demand", and has all (I repeat, TODO) to do with right wing fascist propaganda. Corporations like ABC do not have liberal radio shows because they will not put them on in the first place. It's not as if they did some sort of test run and decided that liberal radio won't work. It's that it is not in ABC's best interest to have people on "their" airwaves (which is actually "our" airwaves) who speak the truth about them and their corporate colleagues.
As for Air America, they have just been saved from bankruptcy by being bought out. They have recently relaunched the station and acquired many new advertisers. FOX (Fascist Orwellian Xenophobes) lost MILLIONS in the first few years of their republican mouthpiece non-news station.
By the by...THERE IS NO LIBERAL MEDIA! I challenge anyone to name one self professed liberal in mainstream media who has his own show on TV. For everyone of those names that you can't name, I'll bet that I can list five or more self described conservatives who host a show in the "liberal media". - jimheinzman, on 10/11/2007, -4/+7When did liberals become known as progressives? I've noticed over the last couple years the "progressive" term is now being used. It is amazing to me the lengths that liberals, or socialists, will go to hide their true colors.
As for the talk show thing, what about balance in network news?
What about balance in newspapers?
What about balance in movies and television shows?
What about balance in America's public universities?
Why is conservative talk radio in the majority and so popular? The answer should be obvious, for the longest time it was the only place conservatives have in the media environment to get their information. Now we have a second source, the internet.
Liberals love freedom as long as it is "their" freedom. - Elgalad1, on 10/11/2007, -4/+7"Progressives" have historically Always had issues with allowing open and free media. From Lenin to Stalin, Mao to Castro, and most recently el Presidente Chavez, their methods never change: Enforce 'Fairness and Honesty' by removing all dissent. After all, it's for the Uninformed public's own good! (We can't be trusted to choose our own sources of truthiness now, can we?)
But these so called enforcers of "fairness" in This nation will always fail. At least as long as this annoying little piece of paper exists..
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
-E - Rusty626, on 10/05/2008, -0/+2When Obama becomes president, he needs to reinstate the Fainess Doctrine. And how did neo-fascists fool America into thinking they were conservatives. They don't CONSERVE anything; they're the radical right wing!
- stormkrow, on 02/02/2009, -0/+1That's because TRUTH, REALITY & SCIENCE naturally have a liberal/progressive slant.
- stormkrow, on 02/02/2009, -0/+1Hate speech is hate speech plain and simple. If ANYONE got caught saying the absolute reverse of ***** Limbaugh that person would go to jail. Now please tell me how this ***** junkie piece of ***** gets away with spewing vitriolic hate speech day in and day ut. I talk with my wallet and I have banned all advertisers of riech wing hate radio.
- jonnyboy1544, on 10/11/2007, -5/+6Fairness in radio? When are libs going to learn that the world is NOT fair and the radio market is driven by markets, just like everything else. If people wanted to hear radio commentators whine about rich people, Karl Rove and Darfur, there would be a market for it.
People who listen to drive time radio are mostly those who are businessmen and women that want to hear about stories and commentary that relates to their lives and livelihood and Jeanine Garafalo and Al Franken just don't do that. - KCBill, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I'm with you 100%. Show me the so called "liberal media"??
Since when have all the Rethug trolls come to Digg?? - SPORTYK, on 10/11/2007, -5/+6Just another way to put an end to FREE SPEECH in the USA...the TV stations are full of left wingers...and doing poorly. Who wants to hear how bad the country they love is? And so listeners tune the wacko's off, in favor of true stories. We are going the way of the socialists and I am sickened by it. One by one the liberals are stuffing socialism down out throats. They want power. They have no use for freedoms. The wealfare is a perfect example of putting people down and "taking care" of the less fortunate....my rosy red fanny...They want to put us under their thumb and then they will tell us how much we can make and what we can listen to... where to live and what to drive, what we can and can not eat.. China, Venzuala, Cuba.....socialist governments.....They all stink. And their days are numbered. Their people are tired of being told what to do, by someone who could careless about them. Power, power, power... The left needs it... GOD help us all...
Lori - evelands, on 10/11/2007, -5/+6Conservative talk radio succeeds because it attracts listeners; liberal radio fails because it doesn't. Don't like it? Improve your message rather than invoke Big Government in an attempt to squash those you disagree with.
"More choices for listeners."? This is newspeak. And, it is false. The majority of newspapers and TV stations are leftist, so philosophical imbalance is a red herring. The neo-Marxists' REAL problem is this: lying is more difficult on radio than on TV.
But, we miss true leftist aims, which have little to do with "race / ethnicity / gender" diversity (worthless concepts, except for those still clinging to the "Male Whitey Is Out To GET You!" myth.) No, the most important diversities (thought and opinion) are what this crowd fears most.
Talk radio gives conservatives that which liberals think they ought not have: a voice. Such is the first (and most important) goal of statists of every breed. - shashovard, on 02/06/2009, -0/+0“Our conclusion is that the gap between conservative and progressive talk radio is the result of multiple structural problems in the U.S. regulatory system, etc.”
http://hotnews.xtreemhost.com/
In other words, it’s a rigged game. http://hot-news.net23.net/
http://hotnews.000hosted.com/ - quantumfoam, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3Liberal talk cannot compete in a free market economy. The so called progressives must run to big daddy government to help them push their agenda. You can always tell a true lover of our constitution and our way of life. They are constantly under attack by the progressive liberals. God Bless America!
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