Posted on 11/30/2003 6:08:59 PM PST by doug from upland
http://www.cobras.org/midi.htm
MIDI - VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR
(musical intro)
I was listening to Hannity or Rushbo
When I tried another station...why?...I don't know
I heard someone and I said, man does this guy blow
Oh-a-oh
In no time I quickly reached the right conclusion
I determined that he needs a brain transfusion
The poor guy was really suffering delusion
Oh-a-oh...the guy was crazy...oh-a-oh...he's freakin' crazy
Liberals stunk my radio up...liberals stunk my radio up
Just 10 seconds...that's enough...now, it's in the trash can
CNN and Jennings spew the same old prattle
Those who watch them follow like they're sheep or cattle
In their heads we're sure we heard something rattle
Oh-a-oh...the guy was crazy...oh-a-oh...he's freakin' crazy
Liberals stunk my radio up...liberals stunk my radio up
Just 10 seconds...that's enough...and that decision had not been tough
Now, it's in the trash can...stuffed down in the trash can
(musical interlude)
I'll miss that old Grundig
Liberals stunk my radio up...liberals stunk my radio up
Just 10 seconds...that's enough...and that decision had not been tough
I won't put up with that stuff...always whining while in a huff
(musical interlude)
Liberals stunk my radio up...liberals stunk my radio up
Liberals stunk my radio up...liberals stunk my radio up
Liberals stunk my radio up...liberals stunk my radio up
Liberals stunk my radio up...liberals stunk my radio up
Liberals stunk my radio up...(fade)
(musical finish)
I couldn't help myself........
The horror. The... horror...
Fresh Air Detected On U.S. Airwaves (HOLD YOUR NOSES!)
Toronto Star ^ | April 4, 2005 | Antonia Zerbisias
Posted on 04/04/2005 10:57:16 AM PDT by srm913
Fresh air detected on U.S. airwaves
Not all media players are blinded by the right and competing for the conservative crowd.
Some see that there's money to be made by being liberal.
The fact is 56 million Americans voted against George W. Bush — and they seem forgotten by most of the mainstream news media, which, research reveals, present a preponderance of Republican voices.
Consider how the cable news networks beat the drums for the attack on Iraq. They waved the flag. They gave platforms to retired generals while ignoring those who advocated peace.
Some media outlets fired stars with anti-war views, like MSNBC did in 2003 with talk show host Phil Donahue.
As he told the listener-funded radio show Democracy Now! (http://www.democracynow.org): "They were really very nervous about us, and the rule was laid down, we had to have two conservatives for every liberal. I was counted as two liberals."
Donahue not only came smack up against management fear of political and ratings retaliation, he was also pitted directly opposite Bill O'Reilly, Fox News' right-wing ratings juggernaut.
What a difference a war, a long and bloody occupation, and a hotly-contested presidential election make.
Not that TV news has moved to the left. Liberal media are springing up to fill the void.
Probably the best example of that is Air America which last week celebrated its first anniversary of Bush-whacking.
And yet, just after it took off last year, on six stations and the Internet, it nearly crash-landed. As the right wing sneered at its efforts, jeered its hosts and cheered for its early demise, the network was kicked off the air in two of its biggest markets, bounced cheques and canned two CEOs.
Since then, it has picked up 45 new stations and two million listeners. It acquired Jerry Springer's new liberal political talk show, which promises inroads with Red State Americans.
Most surprising, Air America, with Democracy Radio (http://www.democracyradio.org), got on the Clear Channel airwaves.
That's the biggest U.S. radio and concert conglomerate — 1,200 stations with revenues of $9.4 billion (U.S.) in 2004.
It's also the radio behemoth often criticized for its cozy relationship with the Republican administration. For example, in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, Clear Channel stations organized pro-war rallies, and stood accused of banning the music of dissenting artists such as the Dixie Chicks.
But business is business — and liberal radio is the fastest-growing format in the industry.
Said John Hogan, president of its radio division, in a recent statement: "Listeners across the country are asking for more progressive talk radio."
And so they are, if the ratings for National Public Radio are any indication.
Last week, the network announced record numbers for its programming, more than 23 million listeners weekly in the fall of 2004. That's a 41 per cent increase since the 9/11 terror attacks.
What NPR offers is a non-commercial alternative to right-wing opinionators such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity who still dominate the airwaves.
But now Air America and Democracy Radio are filling the commercial niche on the left.
In fact, there are many opportunities there, as evidenced by the box office generated by Michael Moore's anti-war Fahrenheit 9/11, the popularity of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the boom in best-selling books by liberals.
One publication cashing in is The Nation, now the leading journal of opinion in the States. Subscriptions to the 145-year-old weekly have nearly doubled from 94,000 to 184,000.
As Art Stupar, The Nation's vice-president of circulation told me last week, the magazine has profited from "the frauds and fallacies of the Bush administration and the reinvigoration of the progressive left."
That there are now targeted vehicles with which the magazine can place ads has also helped reach potential readers. The Nation buys time for its anti-Bush attack ad on Air America, and Newsworld International. (When The Nation tried to place it on Fox News, the ad, which you can see on http://www.thenation.com, was rejected.)
But mostly, The Nation, just like NPR and Air America, benefits from tapping a market of tens of millions who feel disenfranchised by the mainstream media.
"There are many more people out there who have our politics and have never heard of us — and would subscribe if they did," Stupar says. "I believe it's a growing market."
As for Air America, it is, according to CEO Danny Goldberg in the current edition of L.A. Weekly, "about the art of the possible, the kind of programming that nobody would have taken a year ago, because they didn't believe there was an audience for it."
Which proves that, if they build it, the audience and the Volvo and Starbucks ads will surely come.
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