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Virulent talk radio may be a loser, too
The Buffalo News ^ | 11-10-2008 | Douglas Turner

Posted on 11/10/2008 1:19:49 PM PST by Ouderkirk

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This is what passes for journalism
1 posted on 11/10/2008 1:19:50 PM PST by Ouderkirk
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“Minority ownership fell by 14 percent “

because Air America was buying up minority stations?


2 posted on 11/10/2008 1:23:24 PM PST by DBrow (NUMA!)
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To: Ouderkirk

Journalism has died in 2008.


3 posted on 11/10/2008 1:23:27 PM PST by Biggirl (Leave Sarah ALONE!=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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To: Ouderkirk

Journalism? My 7-year-old nephew can write better than this tripe!


4 posted on 11/10/2008 1:23:31 PM PST by ssaftler (Imagine January 20, 2013)
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To: Ouderkirk
The bolsheviks hate free speech.
5 posted on 11/10/2008 1:23:34 PM PST by BenLurkin (Pray for gridlock.)
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To: Ouderkirk
The basic service that a broadcast licensee owes a community is truth. As the election neared, that commodity was in short supply.

Why pick on radio, start with TV (sarc).

6 posted on 11/10/2008 1:25:17 PM PST by verklaring (Pyrite is not gold)
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The fetid puddle of falsehoods and coarseness that talk radio has become

Oh goody!! Does this mean that we can shut down the coarseness on BET and MTV also?

7 posted on 11/10/2008 1:25:43 PM PST by Aggie Mama
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But it was OK by left wing talk radio to accuse Bush of lying about Iraq and killing US troops for his own oil interests, implying that Sarah Palin’s son was not her own or to burn an American flag...those are protected speech.


8 posted on 11/10/2008 1:26:28 PM PST by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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RE :”airwaves do not belong to the station “owners,” as they call themselves, but to the people of the United States of America”

LOL The people meaning the democrats, just like USSR represented ‘the workers’ . Bring it on Hugo Chavis. Clinton was not stupid enough to try this power grab, and he had a reason too, Rush was building an empire on his presidency. This will be a good one to fight.

One thing to note as Rush and Levin say “THEY HATE US”


9 posted on 11/10/2008 1:27:51 PM PST by sickoflibs ( Those who don't learn from (real big) mistakes are losers forever)
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“My 7-year-old nephew can write better than this tripe!”

Amazing, isn’t it? The incorrect punctuation(s) and ugly sentence flow is quite remarkable.


10 posted on 11/10/2008 1:28:41 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Tired from wondering whether we wake up in the newest socialist country tomorrow.)
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To: Ouderkirk

The Internet, whose ownership is still under question


11 posted on 11/10/2008 1:31:00 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (New Tone, My Friend)
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Coal first, then talk radio. This economy will die a slow death - one industry at a time.


12 posted on 11/10/2008 1:31:14 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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That is, that the airwaves do not belong to the station “owners,” as they call themselves, but to the people of the United States of America.

So will everything you own under Obama's Commie Utopia.

13 posted on 11/10/2008 1:32:29 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (It's no longer the Press Van, it's a "Tanker" Truck!)
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The Internet, whose ownership is still under question, is a useful way.

Scary.

14 posted on 11/10/2008 1:32:36 PM PST by sionnsar (Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
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I remember many years back Rush said he would take his show off broadcast radio before he would have it subject to the “fairness” doctrine. With satellite. and iTunes subscriptions, it would be an easy technical transition.

Radio stations are already struggling to hang onto listeners. Lets see if the idiots in Congress are really stupid enough to kill the broadcast radio industry.


15 posted on 11/10/2008 1:32:59 PM PST by 6SJ7 (Atlas Shrugged Mode: ON)
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The Stalinist cockroaches feel comfortable to come out into the light.


16 posted on 11/10/2008 1:33:04 PM PST by BigBobber
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To: SERKIT

The seeds for big trouble.


17 posted on 11/10/2008 1:33:14 PM PST by Biggirl (Leave Sarah ALONE!=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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Congress shall make no law ....abridging the Freedom of Speech


18 posted on 11/10/2008 1:36:16 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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Doug Turner’s a washed-up old windbag. I find it funny how he talks about how one-sided and “virulent” talk radio is, yet at the same time is the person who uses his column to lambaste conservatives at every turn. Typical liberal—a total hypocrite.

Buffalo has a very popular local talk radio station, WBEN (the station that plays Rush). The local libs HATE how popular and successful the station is. And guess what? The talk radio hosts are conservative (hence, the success of the station). Tom Bauerle is superb, and needless to say, not well-liked by the left.

I don’t get it. If you don’t like it, DON’T LISTEN TO IT. Just as I don’t watch Olbermann, or listen to NPR. We have that choice. Crybabies.


19 posted on 11/10/2008 1:38:13 PM PST by conservativeinbflo.
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“Congress shall make no law ....abridging the Freedom of Speech”

TOTALLY AGREE with you.. but Congress has been known to ignore that document more than few times in the past century or so


20 posted on 11/10/2008 1:39:57 PM PST by Kitanis
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