Posted on 01/31/2003 11:33:03 AM PST by TLBSHOW
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:00:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Michael Stinson, a California-based Internet designer, wants the nation's most popular radio personality off the air. He calls his group "Take Back the Media," and has organized a boycott against 24 companies who advertise on Rush Limbaugh's daily show, heard by about 20 million people on more than 600 radio stations.
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Television is a combination of sensory focus and it is far easier to distract and misdirect viewer attention from essential topics presented.
Considering that 90% of people tend to be more influenced by the visual, television has become a new religion. It is analagous to Plato's cave allegory. Television as a propaganda tool helps create visual phantasms (or as Thomas Hobbes called them, 'phantastical images') of the brain.
There are three ways people are influenced according to the school of behavioral psychology - - visual (sight), auditory (sound), kinesthetic (emotion). The kinesthetic or 'feeling' is also based on olfactory and tactile sense, much like Pavlov's salivating dogs. Visual images and sound portrayed can be used to anchor emotional and/or conditioned responses desired by those that present them, which in the case of television, is the Leftist television media, actors who create phantastical images in film, and Leftist politicians who pander to symbolism over substance (like Rush always says about them).
The visual aspect of that phenomenon is also used by the print media to a degree. Interactve talk radio requires thought, television does not and relies on this as a means to influence viewers...
Part of this whole thing is the promotion of "public radio." The government funded NPR and other "public radio" non-profit Leftist crap is not making it.
While I am not enamoured with some of the canned music formats of much commercial radio, I am no fan of the Leftist non-profit NPR like stations that play third world, grass skirt, bone-in-the-nose voodoo music either, with the touchy feely multi-cultural, anti-USA Leftist commentary of the hosts.
Also part of this is the loss of broadcasting licenses by "public radio" stations to a company that is buying licenses to broadcast Christian programming. This is pushing many Leftist public radio stations off the air.
There is more to this issue than most people realize and it is not exclusive to the attack on talk radio (although that is a big part of it).
Television is a combination of sensory focus and it is far easier to distract and misdirect viewer attention from essential topics presented.
Considering that 90% of people tend to be more influenced by the visual, television has become a new religion. It is analagous to Plato's cave allegory. Television as a propaganda tool helps create visual phantasms (or as Thomas Hobbes called them, 'phantastical images') of the brain.
There are three ways people are influenced according to the school of behavioral psychology - - visual (sight), auditory (sound), kinesthetic (emotion). The kinesthetic or 'feeling' is also based on olfactory and tactile sense, much like Pavlov's salivating dogs. Visual images and sound portrayed can be used to anchor emotional and/or conditioned responses desired by those that present them, which in the case of television, is the Leftist television media, actors who create phantastical images in film, and Leftist politicians who pander to symbolism over substance (like Rush always says about them).
The visual aspect of that phenomenon is also used by the print media to a degree. Interactve talk radio requires thought, television does not and relies on this as a means to influence viewers...
Part of this whole thing is the promotion of "public radio." The government funded NPR and other "public radio" non-profit Leftist crap is not making it.
While I am not enamoured with some of the canned music formats of much commercial radio, I am no fan of the Leftist non-profit NPR like stations that play third world, grass skirt, bone-in-the-nose voodoo music either, with the touchy feely multi-cultural, anti-USA Leftist commentary of the hosts.
Also part of this is the loss of broadcasting licenses by "public radio" stations to a company that is buying licenses to broadcast Christian programming. This is pushing many Leftist public radio stations off the air.
There is more to this issue than most people realize and it is not exclusive to the attack on talk radio (although that is a big part of it).
I understand though. They really are a vicious, intellectually bankrupt bunch. Here's to hoping W makes them even more hysterical...
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