Posted on 12/01/2008 5:29:38 PM PST by MartinaMisc
Where has all the good talk radio gone?
Conservative talk radio has been on the ropes the past few years. While it still draws many advertisers and listeners, its influence has seemingly waned. Major conservative talk hosts spent hours making the case for keeping the House and Senate in Republican hands in 2006: their efforts didn’t…exactly…work. Then, in 2008, America’s most prominent talkers made clear their disdain for John McCain, only to see Mr. Maverick seize the GOP nomination. Then, the nation’s conservative voices made a solid case against Barack Obama—only to see the Illinois Senator pound McCain into the ground on November 4.
Has talk radio lost its mojo? Has it become too predictable, too reliant on catchphrases and corny arguments? Has it ceased to be a major factor in listeners’ lives?
If the answer is “yes”, the solution for the country’s major talkers might be to emulate the most underrated nationally syndicated talk host in the US: William J. Bennett, the host of Salem Radio Network’s Morning in America.
Bennett, the popular author, former Secretary of Education and former US drug czar, has hosted Morning in America for nearly five years. He has an unusually compelling voice, a tone that connotes wisdom, experience, reason. He is not a hothead, a self-promoter, a showman; he is a conveyor of knowledge, an educator, an interpreter of the world. It’s odd that he goes head-to-head with Don Imus in so many markets: while Imus’ show is for those with no taste, Bennett’s show is for those with discriminating taste.
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Simple oversaturation. They are everywhere.
Talk Radio doesn’t reach the Paris Hilton Pop rock groups. . . Its educational and informative and has a huge audience . . but it doesn’t control its Drones like Obama. . as those drones are watchin MTV and britney Spears news hopin for Change, ANY CHANGE.
Most talk Radio listeners listen while drivin to work and back.
TV and Video are the majority influence . . .but talk Radio competes nicely. . . but it is only a piece of the Media Story.
The financial crisis clearly ruined the Republicans. How do you avoid getting blamed when you had the White House for eight years and Congress for six of the past eight years?
I personally believe the Democrats were more to blame for the mortgage meltdown, but that’s a hard sell, especially given media bias in favor of Obama. The bottom line, as far as I am concerned is that the Republicans were responsible to the extent that they did not do enough to stop the Democrats from forcing mortgage companies to give risky loans. But both parties were responsible for allowing extreme leveraging in the financial markets.
It’s the same old story line: The Democrats are trying their best to push us off a cliff, and the Republicans are getting the blame for not trying hard enough to stop them.
After more than 20 years I quit listening to Rush because he started working those commercials into his actual show as product placement, it was to much to be listening to him speaking on something important, be hanging on to his every word and then be pulled into an investment ad or something.
After telling people for 20 years that one thing that he did that was brilliant was that he always slipped into a different voice for ads so that you would never confuse the two, he jumped the shark.
Quite frankly, there are better things to do than listen to the daily mantras by people who fancy themselves as setting the agenda for America. The cable news networks are even worse - too many prima donnas to suit me.
Has talk radio lost its mojo? Has it [whatever]...And if the answer is "no"? Then what?If the answer is “yes”, the solution for the country’s major talkers might be to emulate the most underrated nationally syndicated talk host in the US: [insert name here] ...
I don’t know who D.R. Tucker is, but he/she makes me glad that I no longer subscribe to HUMAN EVENTS. I can’t recall ever reading anything that he has written that I agree with. I have never heard Bill Bennett’s radio show, nor do I want to. There are a lot of “conservative” losers doing talk radio today along with the original conservative talker, Rush. Tucker will probably be thrilled, along with the looney left, when all of them are gone due to the coming gov’t censorship.
Talk Radio has a vested interest in the ascension of The One (piss be upon him).
Now that The Left is in power, and the Sheep have the Socilaist nation they have been taught to work toward all these years, those who listen to talk radio will do so to vent their impotent rage, buy the books, boost the ratings - and RushHannityCoulterBeckGallagher will all say the same thing:
KA-CHING!!!
Jumped the shark! Only in your mind.
I enjoy the way he eases into some commercials (catches me by surprise … I even make a game of trying to catch him at it). I’m not about to give up on Rush and all his political and social insights just because he uses humor to jump into a commercial. ;-)
No amount of conservative talk radio could overcome McCain’s and Bush’s tsunami of stupidity.
I miss Spatula City.
“I enjoy the way he eases into some commercials “
I can’t handle it, to me it is like admiring histories great stage actor, being moved by him, selling his unique talents to everyone you know and then one day he up and does a butter commercial using the exact same depth and passion as his greatest lead performances and you know that you will never fall completely under his spell again.
I’m really annoyed at him for this sell out, it is new and it destroys it for me. He very deliberately took the opposite tack his first 20 years.
Sorry you feel that way … hope you recover soon. ;-)
Slightly OT but the afternoon guy up in Charlotte was fired today. I hated to see him go and would like to know why.
“Sorry you feel that way … hope you recover soon. ;-)”
LOL,
Actually me too, if you are a Rush junkie like me then you know that I may not be able to pull off this boycott thing, but nonetheless, it’s on.
Um, no. McCain didn't "seize" the nomination, Democrats "stole" the nomination via our screwy primary system. 
Thanks for that information. I have said for years that only Republicans should be allowed to vote in Republican primaries, and no one should be allowed to switch party affiliation within something like six months before the start of the primaries. But no one pays any attention.
The situation is critical, and people need to wake up. Think about what will happen in 2012 if Obama is running as an unchallenged (or weakly challenged) incumbent. All the Democrats will be perfectly free to vote in the Republican primaries. That could spell disaster.
I miss Bungee Condoms. “You never know what you might be jumping into.”
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