Posted on 05/09/2013 5:13:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
Predictions of the demise of Rush Limbaugh and conservative talk radio are a dime a dozen. That liberal wish has been a repeated incantation. But it’s more amusing when the demise talk comes from .... “Newsweek.”
Come again? Who’s yesterday’s news? John Avlon of the Daily Beast asserts Rush Limbaugh “Bleeds Millions From His Carriers as Toxic Talk Slumps.” Ahem, nobody’s bought Rush’s show for a dollar, like someone bought Newsweek. Avlon finds some guy whose newsletter has a Facebook page with nine Likes to insult Limbaugh’s audience as “all wearing Depends” – when he graduated college in 1968.
We're watching the end of right-wing conservative talk radio," says Jerry Del Colliano, publisher of the radio-industry tip sheet Inside Music Media. "The genre is dying among ratings and dying among advertisers ... Rush is at the end of his career. His constituency is all wearing Depends. And he's getting himself into trouble he doesn't need. So can you put Humpty Dumpty back together again? They have been able to improve their advertising picture, but they have not been able to come back.""Sandra Fluke was simply the lightning that struck and hit an old building that collapsed," Colliano says. "She didn't do it. She helped to bring it down at the end, but it was falling apart on its own."
...But the larger issue is the declining demographics of the right-wing talk-radio racket. “Look at the millennial generation,” says Colliano. “There’s 80 million of them coming of age. They don’t see color. They don’t see gender. And they’re civic minded: they don’t like bloviating. They don’t like yelling and screaming. So you tell me: how’s right-wing talk radio working for them?”
As in the past, the aging right-wing talkers—several of whom are represented by Limbaugh’s agent and brother David—will angrily dispute any decline in their profitability or ratings. It’s all become part of their self-serving kabuki, but Colliano dismisses their reflexive playing of the victim card. “They read the ratings the way they read the Gallup ratings right before the Obama victory. It’s their metrics; it’s their way. But its not backed by fact.”
It's certainly not out of the realm of possibility that radio programmers might look at Obama's re-election and wonder if conservative talk radio is still hot. But you can't trust people who keep saying this over and over -- and Avlon wrote almost the same article in 2011.
Dear Mr. Avlon: speaking of "toxic talk," never forget sitting in the middle of a Newsweek chat about how no one should ever give Dick Cheney a heart.
Where are those “younger, funny, conservative talkradio show hosts” out there?
Have you HEARD their Music?
Have you SEEN the cage fighting fans?
Sorry Colliano, but Rush's audience grew larger after the fluke story hit. I know some 30 yr olds who listen to Rush. Shutting up Rush is all liberals' wet dream.
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This author knows nothing about the millennial generation. I work with them every day and no group of people has ever been more race conscious, gender focused, and they are not civic minded at all. In fact, I would say they are largely apathetic because of the brain-washing the popular culture has tried to do to them. The apathy is generated by the fact that there is a basic human instinct that tells them that liberalism is nothing but lies, but they just have not yet found the path to the truth. People like Rush will bring a majority of them around, and so will you and I. Conservatism is the natural state of human thought, and the reason leftist write crap like what is in this article is that they are trying to convince themselves because at heart even they know they are wrong.
Just remind them of the saying:
“When I was 20 and NOT a liberal I had NO HEART, but when I was 40 and NOT a conservative, I HAVE NO BRAIN.”
In other words, as you get older, you become a bit more realistic.
I can see it if he keeps going the way he is.
His audience is simply going to be fed up when they catch on to how he keeps trying to cover for Hillary.
His campaign to try and make Obama and Hillary out as simply incompetent on Libya isn’t supported by the evidence or the facts.
All the evidence and facts clearly indicate Hillary orchestrated the attack in Libya.
Rush is once again ignoring evidence and facts to support his position.
When the truth finally comes out, and it will, Rush is going to have a hard time trying to explain to his audience how he was so incompetent that he didn’t know it.
Very overpriced
What this guy doesn't realize is that many conservatives were not political when they were young. But once we were exposed to the realities of life, those who still have a half a brain left from college start becoming conservative.
Are you nuts?
Wouldn’t it be great if he sold his business to Sarahwhen he retires? That would really send some libs to jump off bridges.
I just don’t think he will go for another 10-15 years or so.
Newsweek? Oh, the irony...
I listen to podcasts of Armstrong and Getty. I think Getty surfs FR. Ironically they achieved their initial fame in Sacramento.
Now they are slowly taking over California. Also, as many of us who migrated out in the past 10 years (around 1.5 million net), we kept listening to them so they have sort of national show.
Well, it is down a bit from 20 million...
Newsweek is a torture device accepted only in dentist waiting rooms.
“We’re watching the end of right-wing conservative talk radio,” says Jerry Del Colliano, publisher of the radio-industry tip sheet Inside Music Media.”
Another example of how they think that by abusing the power of suggestion, the suggestion becomes reality to people who are willing to believe.
In their dreams!
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