Killing Conservative Talk Radio, One Market at a Time

American Thinker ^ | 01/22/2013 | Daren Jonescu

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’d be careful about falling for the same conspiracy theories that the Libs start floating whenever a Progressive Talker bites the dust (Detroit, San Diego, etc.)

It’s a BIDNESS. If the ad sales and the revenue aren’t there the owners are going to try something else. Conservative Talk, Liberal Talk, Martian Talk, Gregorian Chant...whatever they think will sell ad slots.

On the other hand any owner who would flip an AM station from talk to music makes me VERY suspicious.

[JimRed]

There is no question that the media is not run on a profit-driven structure and instead is a propaganda arm of the government DemocRAT Party.

And yes, it is a sad thought.

[jim_trent]

> Ich bin ein Brainerder.

Does that mean you are a Scandinavian jelly donut?

[Vendome]

Let em buy stations and promote their liberal agenda. If they want to piss away their greenbacks into a fire pit have at it.

They can sustain losses for only so long before reality sets in and sanity reveals itself in the morning.

[bmwcyle]

Talk Radio can make money if it is done correctly. They can’t buy the whole band of stations. It will fail.

[ClearCase_guy]

They can sustain losses for only so long before reality sets in and sanity reveals itself in the morning.

One of my beliefs is that much of the media money comes from three sources:

1) Arabs
2) China
3) Russia

These funding sources are not looking for profits, have virtually limitless resources, and will pour money into this country in order to shape our culture in ways that help them achieve their goals.

I see how the media refuses to portray Arabs as terrorists and bad guys -- TV and film always indicates that "white supremacists" are bombing the bejeezus out of our cities. The funding sources like it that way.

[frizzled]

Radio itself is dying, albeit ever so slowly.

True. It's telling that the hosts mentioned in the original article are paying to be on the air rather than making a profit off it.

[fattigermaster]

It’s well known that one reason so many movie characters smoke us that tobacco companies give studios money to show tobacco use in a positive light.

What do you think keeps them from taking money to show homosexuality in a positive light? Or socialism in a positive light? Or the most heinous enemies and acts against our constitutional values in a positive light, as long as there are enough numbers on the checks special interests write?

Nothing at all. Ever wonder how a movie industry that publishes financial losses year after year ($1.9B last year) continues to thrive and make more crappy movies and programs than ever before?

It’s because Programming the People Pays. If a movie is entertaining, that’s frosting on the cake. But it’s Programming the People that gives Hollywood its Paycheck.

[ThermoNuclearWarrior]

Without talk radio you would lose Conservative allies in a war we have already been losing for decades in our culture and on policy. It would have a significant negative impact on Conservative causes whether you like it or not.

Most of those here obviously get a lot of their information online, but some not only get most of their news from radio, but stay politically motivated by rallying around a Conservative commentator.

I like the few in talk radio who aren't afraid to tell the depressing reality of our situation. Those like Mark Levin who admit the hellish nightmare we are in are very important. Many aren't passionate enough. They lie to themselves, and their audience that they can save themselves within a fraudulent broken system that keeps getting worse.

Those who are truthful in radio don't have the answers either, because good answers don't exist. I wish they would all get more realistic, and help prepare people to make some hard decisions soon.

There is no way to keep the entire union together much longer. There is no possible way to regain the massive amounts of liberty we have lost, or restore our Constitution working through the enormous tyrannical monstrosity of a government we built. We haven't even been able to stop radical leftism from advancing for decades, so there is no excuse to pretend we will now stop it now. It's even more ludicrous to believe it can ever be reversed

Our current government can never be close to being a Constitutional government, with any resemblance to what our founders envisioned. People can accept living as oppressed subjects under an unconstitutional tyrannical government, that soon collapses because of it's well known unsustainable, or they can support some type of succession and/or conflict with the federal government to rid ones self of it's tyranny. There aren't many choices out there. The more who accept this reality the better chance we have at regaining some of the good that our nation was built on. Our current federal government must fall, and then be rebuilt from ashes for any chance to ever have a government that doesn't walk all over our Constitution. It can't be reformed. Some will try to holdout long enough to shamelessly pass the huge problems on to their children and grandchildren, but I don't think that much time exist for most.

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[reefdiver]

It won't work, They will pay a lot, run the ratings into the ground. Libs can only keep in office by promising freebies not their ideas.
Look what they have done to the newspapers, nightly news and their web sites do not attract alot of traffic.

[SeminoleCounty]

I am more concerned with the leftward drift in what was “Conservative” talk radio

We have so called conservatives now pushing liberal ideas like Illegal Alien Amnesty...pushing Amnesty Liberals like Marco Rubio as conservatives....attacking Obama Eligibility people, while giving cover to Obama. Conservative talk radio is losing audience because it is no longer conservative....and station owners realize this

[toptalkradio]

I fully agree. As badly as the right wants to pick up the pieces and reverse course the left wants to finish our nation off before it can be repaired and seems to stop at nothing including sacrificing revenue, profit, self respect and dignity to complete this radical end goal. It is an evil goal and plan that if not stopped will usher in a dark period of American history filled with pain, misery, death and destruction. We still have Conservative Talk Radio thank God as our main weapon to fight back these Joe Geobbels inspired liberal "reporters" in the so called "press"