Posted on 06/23/2007 1:47:26 PM PDT by bannie
You're not wrong if you think Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity never shut up, whereas Ed Schultz or Randi Rhodes barely get air time on the radio. The Center for American Progress and Free Press just released the first-of-its-kind statistical analysis of the political make-up of talk radio in the United States. It confirms that talk radio, one of the most widely used media formats in America, is dominated almost exclusively by conservatives. The new report entitled “The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio” blames the FCC for the current imbalance, in particular the regulatory body's elimination of clear public interest requirements for broadcasting, and the relaxation of ownership rules. I know from my own research that, while progressive talk is making tiny inroads on commercial stations thanks to the Air America and Democracy Radio networks, right-wing talk reigns supreme on America’s airwaves because of its omnipresence at bigger, stronger and more high-profile stations. And Infinity and ABC won't put liberals on the air even though left wingers often beat right-wingers in some major markets.
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The report calls b.s. the usual explanation for the dominance of right-wing talk -- the 1987 repeal of the Fairness Doctrine (which required broadcasters to devote airtime to contrasting views), and simple consumer demand.
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Who?
Please see tag line.
So does this mean that ownership is also responsible for all the newspapers, major networks and Public Broadcasting being liberally slanted?
so then the “real problem” with talk radio is corporate ownership of stations? And corporations are conservative and won’t put Randi Rhodes and her ilk on the air, even in liberal areas???? Really????
Is that why the Spanish radio stations that followed Air America had higher ratings than the failing liberal stations that came before them?
Perhaps it’s because people don’t want to hear liberals whine all of the time.
These entities,and many others,obviously serve the "public interest".
Maybe you should offer them a little cheese with their whine.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
This is getting out of hand. And those numbers have got to be wrong. They suggest that how many people by % are listening to talk radio. I know several but not the majority of folks I know. And of those, many listen to sports. Where can I see this study.
It was funded by Left Wingers. You all do know that, right?
Mark Levin at NRO notes today that the “public interest” dude who’s ppushing this has a financial interest in two lefty radio spots. LOL
It’s the market, stupid!
television does not devote equal time to political views.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Can liberals be embarrassed? If this doesn’t do it nothing will.
Well, maybe that and the fact that nobody seems to want to listen to Left Wing talk radio. As evidenced by Air America.
But we don’t want little things like facts to get in the way, now do we?
It is interesting, to say the least, how the leftists keep looking for excuses why people don’t buy what they are selling.
Left has NPR.
Obviously it has nothing whatever to do with liberals being unable to compete in the marketplace of ideas. It’s the FCC’s fault that right leaning commentators do better with their thoughtful commentary than do leftists and their rants about Bush being a Nazi and so forth.
I won’t be a bit surprised if someone on the left tries to pass a law which dictates that every citizen must listen to a given number of hours of left-wing talk radio each and every day until they come to realize the value of those broadcasts.
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