[CDHart]

"She's absolutely right."

Yes, she is. But you're going to get flamed anyway!

Carolyn

[mg39]

But you're going to get flamed anyway! I know. ;) Thanks for the support. Yes, Ms. Ivins is liberal, but I think we all need to remember that no side has a monopoly on the truth.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"She's absolutely right."--mg39

Yes, she is. But you're going to get flamed anyway!--CDHart

There IS, theoretically, some sense in partitioning the market for broadcast music--multiple stations which don't pretend to compete for the same listening tastes. And I take it that that is the point of ownership of multiple stations in a given market.

The real fallacy, of course, is the false distinction between New York Times / NPR style verbal "objective reporting" and "talk radio." Even were "objective reporting" always factual (Gore wins Florida, anyone?) there is no principled way of determining what is important; journalism finesses that problem somewhat by restricting its attention to what attention-grabbing (unusual and, typically, bad) thing happened recently. That the reporter knows of.

What is called "talk radio" is opinion, and pretends to nothing else--which is actually morally superior to journalism unless the journalist actually does know and choose to report the important--not merely the most exciting--information.

But if you think about it, history would be a lot less exciting if journalism actually told us what was important; who knows what all journalism was prattling about in the 1930s when the only really important thing was the opinion of Winston Churchill about Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin.

[Grit]

"She's absolutely right."
"Yes, she is. But you're going to get flamed anyway!

Alright I went back and read it again. What on Earth is she right about?