Well, geee whiz.....
Poor liberals......
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Cry me a river.......
Posted on 05/11/2008 9:51:35 PM PDT by Texas Eagle
Do you think talk radio in its current format is fair and good for our democracy?
Please e-mail your answers to forum@sacbee.com and include your name and where you live. Please limit your responses to 300 words, and we'll consider them for next Sunday's Forum
There's a mournful hush in Sacramento these days, the empty sound of an entire political viewpoint quieted.
More than 32,000 weekly listeners who once tuned to KSAC (1240 AM) to hear partisan Democrats beat up on President George W. Bush, now hear only Christian hip-hop.
But there are six other commercial radio stations licensed in the Sacramento area programming the Christian message. In the political realm, three local radio stations program 264 hours of partisan Republican radio talkers beating up on Democrats every week.
Now, zero stations program any Democratic view whatsoever: 264-0. This follows the national trend revealed in the 2007 Free Press and Center for American Progress study, "The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio." Nationally, 90 percent of commercial talk radio is conservative; only 10 percent is liberal.
This study does not include Public Radio, which by statute is required to provide differing points of view. One is as likely to hear a Republican's views as a Democrat's. And NPR hosts don't beat up on anybody.
It is time for all of us to take their lead, to remember that we the people own these frequencies, and to compel our representatives to put the public back into the public airwaves.
About the writer: Sue Wilson, a former reporter and host for Capital Public Radio, is an Emmy award-winning television and radio journalist based in Sacramento. She is producing and directing a film about media policy and reform titled "Broadcast Blues," You can reach her at suewilsonreports@gmail.com.
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They won’t want my comments on Liberals.
Heh, heh. But they asked for them.
They never understand why liberal talk radio doesn’t work do they?
The free market has spoken. If there were a concerted effort to block them via a monopoly then that would be different. Lib talk doesn't work the way these guys do it. It might have an audience if done in a way that was informative and gave new insights, but it doesn't. Just bashing. That gets old fast.
Well, geee whiz.....
Poor liberals......
Click the Pic
Cry me a river.......
SNORT!
I don't think I've ever heard a Republican on NPR.
I think the Liberal version of "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em", is "If you can't get 'em to listen to you, force 'em."
They claim these stations had listeners but no advertisers? NONSENSE!
Businesses are in business to make money. They care not a whit about the content so long as advertising brings customers.
Liberal radio doesn’t work because liberals don’t want to spend an hour discussing a subject six ways from sunday. They just want to be told what to think and the latest slogans. That takes only a few minutes. Filling the other 58 minutes with different versions of Bush is a poopy head just doesn’t hold the listeners attention.
Two points (at least) need to be made.
1) The market place should decide what programming a station carries.
2) I wonder how the Bee would like to be told what flavor the articles they print should be.
Here's my favorite part:
One thing is certain: It is time to act. Progressive talk radio has been taken off the air in Boston; Fresno; San Diego; Madison, Wis.; Eugene, Ore.; Austin, Texas; New Haven, Conn.; Columbus, Ohio and other markets all across the country since the 2006 election, often replaced with formats that get lower ratings.
Yeah, Sue, they're called "Informercials"! And the radio station actually makes money on them. Even with fewer listeners.
It's very simple, all liberals are a-holes, what sane person wants to listen to an a-hole.
Read the comments, they’re priceless (sounds like FR).
OMG, where to start. Is this for real??? I take it this is about the proposed (and dangerous) “Fairness Doctrine”, the intent of which is.....to silence Conservative talk radio. To all the libs who whine about the “unbalance” of conservative vs. liberal Talk Radio shows -— ALL media, including TR, is ruled and dictated, quite simply, by RATINGS - and thus far at least, liberal TR has failed abysmally to get the high ratings that conservative TR does. (Al Franken/Air America imploded fairly quickly, for one.) WHY? Because liberals consistently prove to be angry, one-dimensional and irrational in the light of day and, despite their protestations, conservative media is calmer, balanced, and logical.
Hellooooooo.........
My comment to the Sac Bee: It’s blatantly obvious that the free market isn’t interested in the screeching angry hyperbole that passed as legitimate progressive talk radio. If Air America and these other liberal talk radio programs were actually interesting, entertaining and informative, they would have gathered a loyal audience in a state as liberal as California. What does it tell you when liberals don’t want to listen to liberal talk radio?! It was crap and it deserved to die.
Maybe they can get Bernie Ward to do live remotes from prison...between rapes...
They still don’t want ‘em.
“And NPR hosts don’t beat up on anybody.”
Just had to say one more thing on this subject - both NPR AND PBS do indeed beat up on (conservative) people all the time, just more subtly, “softer” and gentler. I’m steadily working on a dear friend of mine who says he’s “apolitical” (read leaning to liberal). I’m getting him to see the contrast between MSNBC (Matthews, Olbermann) and FNC/Glenn Beck in terms of which always presents both arguments and has guests in equal numbers (or any!) from both sides. He’s beginning to see the light :-)))
“I think the Liberal version of “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em”, is “If you can’t get ‘em to listen to you, force ‘em.”
And how ironic that the ACLU/civil libertarians are proposing to restrict the 1st amendment via government regulation, to suit their own purpose and “level the playing field”. What a surprise.....not.
Chortle. The Lib Pressholes already get taxpayer subsidized radio and TV.
“Right wing” radio had to make it on it's own in a commercial setting. If nobody listened, it would be off the air.
David Rodham Gergen?
Kevin Rodham Phillips?
I dood it! I hope I showed suitable restraint.
The real question should be "do you think that the far-left print and television media in its current form is fair and good for our democracy?" I realize that the left wants to silence anyone that doesn't agree with their dogma, but the first amendment applies to all, not just liberals.
Oh, and by the way, it's a Republic, not a democracy.
And the word fair appears nowhere in the Constitution.
HAHAHA stop you're killing me.
humor ping
Neither does the word, "democracy."
Yes, it's fair, because it reflects the fact that a majority of radio listeners don't want liberal talk radio, as has been aptly demonstrated every time the listeners have been given a choice.
And yes it's good for our "democracy" because without talk radio there would be NO way for conservatives to be fairly represented in the broadcast dialog.
You’re right. The comments tell the tale. Commentary from the right is concise and thoughtful and from the left is insulting and dismissive.
Makes that whole cognitive dissonance thing a bit harder fro them, doncha think?!
Even if these morons were able to force through the stupid “Fairness Nonsence” Rush would go satellite and everyone would go with him.
Their desire to take it away is impossible to achieve at this point. They will never have the Big 3 network Cronkite lie machine they once had. Boo-Hoo!
Rush gives the Liberal viewpoint every day.
If the Democrats take over the congress and the presidency, the “Fairness Doctrine” will be a given. For more on this law go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
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