Liberals on radio messageboards deny that NPR is left wing...a few yrs ago one NPR show, think it was morning edition, decided to put a conservative segment on for seven minutes per week. There was outrage, and it was dropped. Not so fair and balanced.
In Boston NPR station WBUR does get good ratings, and the other NPR station, WGBH, just moved its classical programming to another station so they could jump in to news/talk. But conservative talk does surprisingly well, with WRKO, WBZ (at
night),WTKK, and now Clear Channel has launched Rush Radio 1200 (Beck, Rush, Hannity, Levin). It should do well.
Clear Channel tried libtalk on the station that is now Rush Radio and it failed. It was off a couple years till someone bought time on a weak sports station and now they pay to put on left talk shows. It does not show up in the ratings...in Boston. CC had also tried libtalk in Providence and New Haven; when that bombed the stations switched to conservative talk and sports.
Typical bit of libtalk—after the man crashed his plane into the IRS building, leaving behind mostly left wing diatribe on a website, one libtalk host said “So we have our first teabagger terrorist”
The article mentioned how Franken said his mission was to defeat GWB. Mission NOT accomplished. He was in Boston to do his show for what they thought would be Kerry’s victory.
A couple days later, you could tune in and hear Franken’s
molasses-laden voice (that description came from a liberal on a messageboard believe it or not!) with boring discussion on how what they considered voting fraud