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Radio Daze - Limbaugh, Beck use actors to call-in
Tablet Magazine ^ | 11 Feb 2011 | Liel Leibovitz

Posted on 03/07/2011 9:23:56 AM PST by Erik Latranyi

Last year, a young man called in to a radio station with a problem. He’d recently attended a bachelor party, he said, and a friend of the groom-to-be, clueless of the unwritten etiquette of maledom, brought his girlfriend along, derailing what was supposed to be a weekend of gambling, girls, and general debauchery. The caller told his story with passion and verve, and then asked the station’s listeners for their advice on how to treat his clueless pal.

Or at least he would have, had this been a real conversation. The young man—who asked to remain nameless in order to protect his chances for future employment—was an actor, and the staged call an audition. A short while later, he received the following email: “Thank you for auditioning for Premiere On Call,” it said. “Your audition was great! We’d like to invite you to join our official roster of ‘ready-to-work’ actors.” The job, the email indicated, paid $40 an hour, with one hour guaranteed per day.

But what exactly was the work? The question popped up during the audition and was explained, the actor said, clearly and simply: If he passed the audition, he would be invited periodically to call in to various talk shows and recite various scenarios that made for interesting radio. He would never be identified as an actor, and his scenarios would never be identified as fabricated—which they always were.

Curious, the actor did some snooping and learned that Premiere On Call was a service offered by Premiere Radio Networks, the largest syndication company in the United States and a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, the entertainment and advertising giant. Premiere syndicates some of the more sterling names in radio, including Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: actors; beck; limbaugh
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Here is the original article that started the liberal conspiracy theory.
1 posted on 03/07/2011 9:24:01 AM PST by Erik Latranyi
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To: Erik Latranyi

There was a thread about this a couple of days ago so I was interested to see if Limbaugh said anything. He led off the show today going over this.

Might lend some credence to the FReepers who think Rush uses FR for some of his show prep. Not that there is a darn thing wrong with that, the crew here is bleeding edge on lots of stuff in the news.


2 posted on 03/07/2011 9:26:45 AM PST by West Texas Chuck ("Do right, and risk the consequences." - Sam Houston)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Liberal hype! They want to believe so BADLY that people don’t really believe in conservative values. A person would have to be a paid actor to actually believe that stuff, right?! Not buying it for a minute. It is so transparent.


3 posted on 03/07/2011 9:27:51 AM PST by momtothree
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To: Erik Latranyi

Republican ACTORS need to get work..Somehow.
/SARC!!!!!!

IF this were even remotely true, as an actor, this WOULD have crossed my DESK!!!


4 posted on 03/07/2011 9:28:09 AM PST by gwilhelm56 (To anger a Christian, Lie to them. To anger a muslim, tell them the TRUTH!)
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To: Erik Latranyi

i reckon it’s OK for hillary to bring in staged, planted questions to her meet/greets?


5 posted on 03/07/2011 9:28:38 AM PST by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Erik Latranyi
The job, the email indicated, paid $40 an hour, with one hour guaranteed per day.

Good gig. I'd do it. Too bad they took the website down :-(

6 posted on 03/07/2011 9:28:51 AM PST by Huck (Fools make feasts and wise men eat them - Poor Richard)
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To: Erik Latranyi
Even if true, the left still has us outnumbered on actors by 10 fold and then some.
7 posted on 03/07/2011 9:32:26 AM PST by Niteranger68 (Jared Lee Loughner - Disciple of Michael Moore)
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To: camle

“i reckon it’s OK for hillary to bring in staged, planted questions to her meet/greets?”

Just because the Left needs to do these things, they just can not fathom the right not needing to do the same. Just like rent a mob, they only know staged events.

They fear the real people of this country. So, they think slander will work. HA!


8 posted on 03/07/2011 9:37:05 AM PST by TruthConquers ( Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
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To: West Texas Chuck
"Might lend some credence to the FReepers who think Rush uses FR for some of his show prep"

Yep. Immediately following Sheriff Dupnik's press conference following the Tucson shooting, FReepers started calling him "Sheriff Dipstick". Nor saying Rush's fertile mind couldn't have come up with the same nickname, but it started here.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

9 posted on 03/07/2011 9:38:07 AM PST by wku man (Still holding my breath, but exhaling a bit after Nov. 2...)
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To: Erik Latranyi

I see this as another attempt by the left to discredit conservative media outlets and to try and drive a wedge between conservatives and these shows.


11 posted on 03/07/2011 9:40:40 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: Erik Latranyi
Entirely bullcrap, only leftists do this crap, paid or unpaid.

Anytime this happens to Rush, he usually nails 'em as a leftist seminar caller or someone who tries to punk him. Rush has thousands of real stories of leftists making fools of themselves, that are free. He never has to pay for that stuff.

12 posted on 03/07/2011 9:41:31 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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To: de.rm

You just signed up 5 months ago just to post that?


13 posted on 03/07/2011 9:43:30 AM PST by Uriah_lost (Is there no balm in Gilead?....)
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To: Navy Patriot

They usually start with “I used to be a Republican, but....” then comes the DNC talking points. They’re very easy to spot, like trolls on FR.


14 posted on 03/07/2011 9:44:12 AM PST by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: momtothree
Liberal hype!

Nope. Liberal projection.

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15 posted on 03/07/2011 9:44:13 AM PST by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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To: Erik Latranyi

The link on Premier is about two thirds down this page: http://www.premiereradio.com/category/view/prep_and_research.html


16 posted on 03/07/2011 9:45:46 AM PST by DigitalVideoDude (It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Rush handled this BS as a “housekeeping matter” right out of the box today.

GO RUSH! bttt


17 posted on 03/07/2011 9:51:50 AM PST by Matchett-PI ("Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Tax " ~ Gagdad Bob)
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To: Erik Latranyi

And this actor probably would sound “real”.

Now, when I listen to NPR’s On point or some of their other call-in shows, the people calling in NEVER sound “real”, most calls sound faked.

And I have no problem with the practice. These shows are primarily entertainment, and if a show has a dull spot and the conversation needs to be kick-started, a synthetic call works.

What makes me suspicious is that they’d have the actor actually call in. Why not do the call during the preshow prep and put it on a cart for the producer to run at precisely the correct time? Calling in, getting a clear line, and getting through the screener sounds risky when radio shows are timed closely.


18 posted on 03/07/2011 9:52:30 AM PST by DBrow
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To: Erik Latranyi

so... an entertainment show hires entertainers?

*yawn*

why are we supposed to care about that?


19 posted on 03/07/2011 9:54:35 AM PST by Mr. K (Job #1 DEFUND THE LEFT then Palin/Bachman 2012 -Unbeatable Ticket~!)
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To: Erik Latranyi

I don’t think it should matter whether a talk show host uses actors to call in or uses screen callers to choose which callers to air. All talk show hosts are going to control their show in some fashion.


20 posted on 03/07/2011 9:55:21 AM PST by Walts Ice Pick
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