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Posted on 02/11/2009 9:27:18 PM PST by FormerLib
Bill Press is a smart and thoughtful liberal who has had a long and successful career in the TV and radio punditry biz. Yet there he was in Sunday's Post bemoaning the loss of "Obama 1260," the left-leaning Washington talk radio station that morphed into an all-financial advice outlet this week. The way Press tells it, the loss of that format on WWRC, which had so few listeners it sometimes didn't register at all in the Arbitron ratings, amounts to an unfair allocation of the public airwaves, even a conspiracy to silence voices from the left. Press is so exercised about this--his syndicated show was, after all, the morning drivetime programming on the station--that he's even calling for the return of the Fairness Doctrine, the long-discarded regulatory scheme by which the federal government prevented radio and TV stations from airing much in the way of controversial political programming.
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...
They just can’t compete.
But I understand they have an excellent Five-Year Plan to change all of that!
Press is a moron. Just change the call letters to "VRWC", and the station's ratings will boom.
Should licensed radio stations be required to carry a mix of opinions?
FReep away!
It IS a conspiracy, I tell you, I’ve seen it!
There are these hoards of tiny gnomes (I think that the VRWC has co-opted the “Underpants Gnomes,” due to their obsession with profit, even though they’re not quite sure of all the steps one must take to get to the profit) that infiltrate the homes, businesses, and cars that are being monitored by Arbitron, and during ratings periods, switch the tuners to the conservative talk shows, causing low ratings for the “progressive” talk show.
It’s only through the intervention of those gnomes that Rush Limbaugh is making the sort of salary he’s getting! Do you really think that more than 10 people in the country would ever listen to him or Sean Hannity? Heck, I normally only listen to NPR, And I don’t know a single person who listens to that right wing hate filled talk radio!
It’s all a conspiracy!
Mark
Well Obama has already embarked on the step 1, collecting underpants. Geithner there is doing his best to explain the “?”, and I guess we’ll have to wait to see the ‘profit’.
Bump
POLL
Should licensed radio stations be required to carry a mix of opinions?
* Yes
19%
* No
80%
Created on Feb 10, 2009
Total Votes: 680
Press is after equal outcome, not equal opportunity.
Every time I have seen Press on TV he comes across as an arrogant penis-head.
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>>Should licensed radio stations be required to carry a mix of opinions?
Hopefully it would also require conservatives to appear on NPR, if they want “balance”...
A few years ago, the NPR morning show actually did a weekly
segment with a conservative talking for all of seven minutes.
They were bombarded with complaints. _They couldn’t take
seven minutes per week_ of _another opinion_, those tolerant libs.(On taxpayer funded radio, yet.)
Very telling argument, which we may need to use soon
Please be sure the right people are alerted to this, when and if necessary.
Bill Press drove me to change political parties. Between the commentary of the likes of Bill Press and the reality presented by Rush and others on the conservative side, I realized I was a conservative Republican, not a conservative Dem. There are many in this country who still are Dems, but who truly live and relate to Republican ideals.
I pray for them to see the light... I think the good will win out in the end. Sorry... eternal optimist here!
Good morning Raccoon, thanks for that Radio-Locator.com info...now I understand why my local Mark Levine AM radio station gets crappy @ 6:00pm when the Great One’s show starts. They cut their BC wattage from %k to 1k @ night!
I thought it was a lib conspiracy/lols.
Are you also a Ham Radio op?
Two interesting things about this article:
1) the conclusion that indeed we are becoming polarized by the proliferation of media technology.
AND
2) a reader comment demonstrating motive:
One of the nuggets I’ve gleaned from several radio sources is that Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, who has been in the aggressive forefront of the campaign to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, is married to Tom Athans, who works extensively with left-wing radio organizations and was once the executive vice-president of Air America, the liberal radio syndicate that, despite massive publicity from major media, has failed miserably to win a national audience. Stabenow’s outrageous conflict of interest has of course been largely ignored by the prestige press, which should have been demanding that she recuse herself from all political involvement with this issue.
Posted by: zavv | February 11, 2009 3:36 PM
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