The Right Wing Domination Of Talk Radio And How To End It
The heading above is from a Leftist site. They go on to say:
“The Center for American Progress and Free Press today released the first-of-its-kind statistical analysis of the political make-up of talk radio in the United States. It confirms that talk radio, one of the most widely used media formats in America, is dominated almost exclusively by conservatives.
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 guess what their solution is to this “problem”? More government regulation of course!
The fact that Leftist talk radio has been tried (Jim Hightower and Air America, for instance) and failed to get much of an audience was not mentioned. Most people just don’t want to listen to whiners and scolds. They just want to listen to people who make sense.
Quite a few other bloggers have commented on this latest attack: e.g. here and here.
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Posted by JonJayRay on June 22, 2007 7:08 am
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Having worked on all three of the former big three networks, plus PBS, I can inform you that “marketplace rules” don’t operate when you have a trifecta of trivia like the closed circuit that existed until FOX News came and broke the liberal daisy chain.
We know you illuminati on the left believe you are sophisticated and we conservatives are hoi-polloi. But I read the Duino Elegies in German, Proust in French [as well as Layla wa Majnun in Arabic] and I still think Rush Limbaugh is the best thing to listen to while driving from Point A to Point B in the afternoon here in Boca!
The fact that Liberals have to twist and contort stats and polls to get around the fact that the US population is 5/2 or 3/1 self-described as conservative [versus “liberal†which few want to stain their resume with]. Polls from Pew, Gallup, Zogby and Jeffrey Goldberg’s wonderful article on Midwest Democrats all confirm that most Americans, even if they may vote or call themselves Democrats, are people of religious faith and a “Show Me†disposition—-except for “opinion-makers†in the MSM, Hollyweird, and Academicide, where life-long slackers with an attitude congregate.
I had Democratic credentials from way back until 9/11 when I underwent a rite of initiation, grew up, became an adult, began to let the scales fall from my eyes, and smelled the jasmine gardens of South Florida’s best radio person on air. [Actually, I just began late last year to listen on the advice of a PhD medical expert—who thinks Rush is great, but B O’R is primarily an entertainer.]
Talk radio is the ONLY “marketplace of ideas” except for the WSJ and Fox News out there [plus Drudge]. The reason the NYT is in a tailspin approaching death spiral is that the country is hungry for honest commentary, not the patty-cake bromides that libs on the three “broadcast” networks [ex-FOX] pretend are the parameters of debate.
They want to apply the fairness doctrine to talk radio?
Fine by me… Just as soon as the fairness doctrine applies to left wing media.
And after Rush Limbaugh gets a daily hour on PBS, let’s just take the idea of ideological diversity to the next level: how about half the professors teaching in Universities that receive federal funds must be conservatives?