Center for American Progress had a 40 page report ready to try and justify government-mandated censorship of the one media outlet that can rally the people against Hillary!
CAP is a CLINTON-RUN leftist think tank, run by Hillary Clinton and former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta. They helped launch Media Matters for America.
SOROS is a huge contributor, and other recent donors to CAP include the Rockefeller Family Fund; the Irving Harris Foundation, the Philip Murphy Foundation, the New York Community Trust, the Overbrook Foundation, the Peninsula Foundation, the Robert E. Rubin Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, the Bauman Family Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the Open Society Institute, and the Robert and Irene Schwartz Foundation.
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Yeah, right. These communist-lite b*stards don't want ANY speech. And if they truly want their "voices" on the radio, they could try to put on a program which didn't actively repel listeners like ErrAmerica did. They already have NPR, which I can't bear to listen to since everything has a homosexual slant to it.
Mike Harrison of TALKERS magazine (the folks who gave
Savage the Freedom of Speech award) said that the report
was inaccurate because public radio was not included.
Anyone out there name any conservative voices on public
radio?
from the Boston Herald, last Friday. By Jesse Noyes
Ninety-one percent of the talk on the radio dial during weekdays is given over to right-wing programming, according to a study by Free Press and the Center for American Progress, both left-leaning groups.
The two groups studied 257 news and talk stations owned by the top five commercial station owners in the country earlier this year and found that over 2,570 hours of conservative talk were broadcast on those stations each weekday, while a much lower 254 hours was dedicated to progressive talk.
In a conference call, the authors of report said the Federal Communications Commission needs to step in to limit the number of stations companies can own and make way for more local ownership.
“Our goal is not less speech, it’s more speech,” said Ben Scott, policy director for Free Press. “We want more voices on the radio.”
But Michael Harrison, publisher of trade magazine Talkers, said the report is flawed and narrow. It doesn’t consider the broader spectrum of talk radio, which would include public radio stations, he said.
“There’s a lot more to talk radio than what they call talk radio,” Harrison said.
Even in blue-state Massachusetts, there’s very little liberal talk. WTTK-FM (96.9) recently expanded the time slot of Herald columnist Margery Eagan and NECN host Jim Braude’s show by two hours. By talk radio standards, Eagan and Braude are moderate to liberal.
But Clear Channel dumped its liberal talk format heard on WKOX-AM (1200) and WXKS-AM (1430) last year in favor of a Spanish-language format.
Mike Crusham, market manager for Clear Channel in New England, said the move wasn’t politically motivated but financial.
“I always found, at least in my past life, that it’s tougher to sell advertising on progressive talk,” he said.
Donna Halper, a radio consultant who’s been pushing to get progressive talk back on the air in Boston, said the format can work if given enough resources.
“It isn’t an easy sell but, then again, neither was right-wing conservative talk when it started out,” she said.
I wonder why they don’t go on AirHead America and talk about this?
Notice no mention of the obvious liberal bias of the rest of the media and Hollyweird.
Fine, I want half of every department in every university in America to be staffed with registered conservatives, I want a competing newspaper in every city with the same funding as their leftist counterpart, I want 3 conservative, national TV channels to counter the big three, and for every socialist movie or documentary, I want funding for a conservative counterpoint. I also want a right leaning version of the ACLU, the ABA, and the AMA. Further, I want every secondary school in the US to have a proportional # of conservatives, all the grants from the big trusts must give equal $ to conservative causes, and I will also require a radical restructuring of the publishing industry, from booksellers to weekly news magazines. This would be a good start.
Hmmm, I just wonder if they want this to apply to TV stations. As the saying goes "Be careful waht you ask for".
And what is the author’s take on the main stream media, does he show the imbalance there towards the liberals, with some 90% of all reporters donating to the democrats, as a recent survey reported? Of course not!
Surveys have been done of the DBM and found the exact same imbalance, but skewed toward liberal dominance. Talk radio IS the balance to the DBM.
Who gets to decide what is conservative talk programming and what is liberal? I find Larry Kudlow liberal on some issues (like immigration), but conservative on others (free markets). Does he balance himself? This is ridiculous.
Seems the USSR’s propaganda writers are working in Poedesta’s little left wing thought crime mill.
Center for American Progress had a 40 page report ready to try and justify government-mandated censorship of the one media outlet that can rally the people against Hillary!
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This is EXACTLY what this is about! This sham of a socialist, anti-free speech front, is FUNDED BY THE CLINTON MOB AND SOROS, ET AL, for the SPECIFIC PURPOSE of protecting Hitlery from EXPOSURE AND COMPETITION IN THE 2008 ELECTION. What a crock of BS. These scum bag liberals are so filthy, they cannot win in a FAIR FIGHT, so they have to go to the back alleys and gutters to win.
Watch for their all-out attack on TALK RADIO and other forms of free speech that they cannot compete against and are willing to trash your Constitutional rights to get POWER AND CONTROL in the White House.
Filthy b@stards.
As the Democrats/Libs push this forward I think they will find out that the worst thing to have happened would have been their failed putsch of Air America. Proof that the market cannot support the drivel that drips from Liberal talk radio.
We outnumber them so let the fight begin. Liberals want a confrontation on this issue. I say, let it begin. Everyone I know (both Parties) is saying that they are voting against “ALL” incumbents. Incumbents that want to limit our freedom of speech are toast. Freedom of speech, in their book, is only for the likes of Michael Moore and George Soros. Their goal is to silence us. They can think again, they’re very WRONG!
Let's not forget "News and Notes" -- another raging liberal NPR program.
Let's not forget that several NPR correspondents are regularly used as the liberal voice on the Sunday news shows.
You mean like in the print and TV media, where the so-called "fair" journalists are 90% Democrats pushing Democrat agendas?
No, it's related to revenue. Profitable shows stay on the air, money losers get canceled. It's called the free market, I can understand why a Soros-funded group might not have heard of the concept.
Astroturfing at its finest.
It is good to want. Try this. Gather some true talent, perhaps someone who says intelligent things, is engaging and well spoken, grow an audience (takes time), and build a darn following (may take a while). Like trees in the woods: the big strong ones do well b/c of favorable conditions and natural ability to thrive. There is no conspiracy to it.