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Why the Right Rules the Radio Waves
New York Times ^ | 12-08-2002 | John Leland

Posted on 12/08/2002 6:06:40 AM PST by bigaln2

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To: bigaln2
Why the Right Rules the Radio Waves

Because the Left forgot that there are a LOT of people who can think without the benefit of their pretty pictures and short propagandistic sound bites.
81 posted on 12/08/2002 4:53:32 PM PST by aruanan
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To: Alberta's Child
Then the station would have two "liberals" and two conservatives on the air, but the content of the shows would not change one bit.

That isn't the way the Fairness Doctrine worked when it was implemented. It wasn't the stations that had to have both sides presented -- it was each individual show that had to give equal time to all sides. That meant also allowing Third Party spokespeople, and the limits for allowing them on were much looser than what we see today with debates.

So it wouldn't be Limbaugh and Hannity registering as Democrats to meet a station quota, it would be forcing them to air all sides of any issue that they discuss on each and every show. Of course, they don't have to actively seek other sides, but they would have to allow other sides if they asked for equal time.

That's what the Fairness Doctrine was.

-PJ

82 posted on 12/08/2002 5:30:06 PM PST by Political Junkie Too
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To: bigaln2
No, no, no! You are all wrong and I am right. (Incidentally, I don't and have never listened to talk radio and wouldn't recognize Rush Limbo if he came up to me and handed me a check for one million Swiss Franks. But I know.)

Liberals, the Leftists are not successful in talk radio or any medium that requires an exchange because theirs is an ideology of preaching. They talk atcha, not withya, it's as simple as that. Note the tendency of all Leftist leaders al the way up to Krintong to make speeches that last for hours and must be trated as the final word on, well, on everything under the sun.

There is simply no meaningful debate on the Left.

83 posted on 12/08/2002 5:49:50 PM PST by Revolting cat!
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To: CurlyDave
:conservatives don't know what to think until they listen to Rush"

Look, I and most other consevatives have been listening in previous decades to liberal TV, university professors, public grammar and High school, liberal newspapers, and liberal radio news, etc. All that listerning for decades never convinced me that I should be a liberal. Rush never convinced me and I am sure most others that we should be conservative. We already were.

What Rush gave us was info purposely hidden to us by the liberal media, also facts and rationale and fun. Not a bad deal for free. (I know that for free is verboten but I think it fits.)

Godspeed, The Dilg
84 posted on 12/08/2002 6:22:20 PM PST by thedilg
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To: lonevoice
We have nowhere else to turn besides talk radio and the internet.

Ain't it the truth. Thanks for the ping.

Godspeed, The Dilg
85 posted on 12/08/2002 6:54:14 PM PST by thedilg
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To: Alberta's Child
Re:Trash Dirty Radio[snip]"they do so poorly among prized target audiences (professionals between the ages of 25 and 55)."

Advertising to "dummies" in the mind-less drive-time slot by jocks who have nothing to say except trash an example is Tom Lykis. The audiance is made up of very shallow and uneducated kids. This is like South Park of radio but they get sponsors -- and there is always a new one -- with a slightly different brand of smut.
86 posted on 12/08/2002 7:01:22 PM PST by BeAllYouCanBe
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To: tet68
Ah, the "Fairness doctrine" I remember when that was in place. What a mishmash of pap we received then.

One good thing came from the Fairness Doctrine. Does anybody but me remember the third-party mayoral candidate from (I think it was) Pittsburg who got on the Dick Cavett show one night because of a 'fairness' ruling? The guy turned out to be the hit of the show; he was funnier than the comedians they had on.

87 posted on 12/08/2002 9:32:34 PM PST by Nick Danger
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To: bigaln2
Liberals draw hard bright lines of right and wrong when the issue is smoking or wearing fur. Or the artist right to produce shock art at the expense of all taxpayers. Liberals have opinions and strong "feelings". That's not the problem. The problem is that no one cares about their issues beyond the elite's small self-centered click.

"The answers may inhere in the nature of liberalism, said Robert Thompson, a professor of media and popular culture at Syracuse University. Where radio conservatives have thrived by drawing hard distinctions between right and wrong..."

88 posted on 12/08/2002 9:35:13 PM PST by GOPJ
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To: martin_fierro
Q ERTY8 BUMP!

When it's Raines, it's poor. (Apologies to Mortons Salt.)

I subscribed to the Times for years; cancelled my subscription when the rag endorsed for re-election the "documentably dysfunctional" president with "delusions" -- its own words.

I thought the Times could go no lower--then along came Raines.

Understanding that intellectual rigor and agitprop are in opposition, Raines systematically eliminated all evidence of the former while increasing the latter. His unique achievement has been a seamless blend of yellow journalism, white noise and red shift...

A related NYT apologia: The Man From Might Have Been

89 posted on 12/09/2002 4:02:26 AM PST by Mia T
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To: bigaln2
The answers may inhere in the nature of liberalism, said Robert Thompson, a professor of media and popular culture at Syracuse University.

It is, but not for the reasons cited. Liberalism is about a top-down attitude, that there are elites that know what is best for all of us, and those below them should just march in lockstep. On a radio show with interactive callers, this attitude has about as much appeal as a root canal - the callers are folks who wish to state their own opinions and take on the host in debate. Conservative positions are more grass-roots, individual oriented, and such folks are more inclined to facts over emotions, and reason over sentiment, and are inclined to defend their positions - hence the appeal of conserative hosts to conservative listeners. And even honest liberals can tune into talk radio and learn something - the radical concept of thinking for yourself...

90 posted on 12/10/2002 8:31:18 AM PST by dirtboy
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