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LIBERAL TALK: SLEEP AID - 'Progressive' Host Helps Elderly Activist Snooze
The Radio Equalizer- Brian Maloney ^ | November 26th, 2005 | Brian Maloney

Posted on 11/26/2005 4:24:00 PM PST by chuckpez

In radio, there's perhaps no greater insult than to be told your program helps elderly listeners nod off at night. Talk shows are supposed to keep people awake, not serve as a sleep aid.

In addition, because advertisers demand audiences primarily between the ages of 25 and 54, stations usually try to aim in that direction, without completely chasing away listeners older than 55.

With that, I'm not sure if Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Gordy Holt meant to dig extremist KIRO/Seattle host Mike Webb, but the result was one of the most devastating verdicts ever levelled against a radio program:

(Excerpt) Read more at radioequalizer.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: bush; cbs; democrats; gop; guns; hippies; kiro; liberal; liberalbias; liberals; mediabias; mikewebb; msm; radio; republicans; seattle; secondamendment; sleep; snoozers; socialists; talkradio

1 posted on 11/26/2005 4:24:02 PM PST by chuckpez
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To: chuckpez
I looked around for photo of Mike Webb, and couldn't find one--- not even on his web site.
Which leads me to the conclusion that he's got a face perfectly suited for radio.




2 posted on 11/26/2005 5:05:43 PM PST by melt (Someday, they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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To: melt
Hah! Loser DOES have a pic on his site...from 1972...


3 posted on 11/26/2005 6:42:51 PM PST by raccoonradio
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To: chuckpez

"Don't you think maybe now the Democrats will get off their hind ends and do something for the rest of us?"

A perfect synopis of the liberal mind.


4 posted on 11/27/2005 4:27:42 PM PST by kublia khan (Absolute war brings total victory)
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