Liberal-Leaning Radio Network Planned

AP | 2/18/03 | WILL LESTER

[tuna_battle]

He's a member of several 12-step programs and an A@@hole in real life.

Stuart Smalley

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Radio is the focus of only one of the five senses. A listener has to really tune in to the subject matter and focus on the content of the ideas.

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...

Examples of this from the article:

A group planning a liberal-leaning radio network says the idea hasn't caught on in previous attempts because it wasn't marketed properly and wasn't entertaining enough.

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The group, led by Anita Drobny, consists of investors who have financially supported Democratic candidates. Hoping to start the network by this fall, they are talking with comedian and author Al Franken about working with the network and hope to attract other entertainers and political guests.

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Sinton said those who lean to the right are great at haranguing Bill and Hillary Clinton, but those who lean left have better connections to the entertainment world in Hollywood and New York.

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"We want to take an issue and make it funny and engaging," he said. "Our intent is to engage and entertain as a way to enlighten, engage in skit comedy, parody, political satire."

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Sinton said earlier programs have failed because they were placed in time slots between more conservative programming and weren't entertaining enough.

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While questions have been raised about who could be host on a liberal talk show, the bigger question may be the difficulty of mobilizing an audience for such a show.

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A sign of the liberal dilemma is the code word that they like to use to describe themselves these days...

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Communications specialist Kathleen Hall Jamieson, who was involved in a study of talk radio in the mid 1990s, said the conservative radio audience is easier to mobilize because it is more likely to see liberals as very distant from their own views.

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"The search for the liberal equivalent of Rush Limbaugh may be misunderstanding how Limbaugh starts from a natural advantage," said Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. "His audience is already polarized. The liberals don't need a host, they need a different audience."

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[Thebaddog]

I did an internet phonebook search in Illinois for the name Drobny and came up empty for Anita or her husband. Can you say Beard? This is like the porn king offering a million dollars for the dirt that was already in the FBI files as if to sanitize it, in my opinion.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Oh, they are going to use the television model.

Yes. See #42...

[goldstategop]

That's strange. If they are really entrepeneurs, they should be publically listed. Have you run a Google or Yahoo search?

[Thebaddog]

I ran Anywho intrnet directory which is ATT based. http://www.anywho.com.

[smith288]

They won't listen anyway, all the libs listen to is either classical and
NPR, or stuff like Korn, NWA, Limp Bizkit, Eminem, and other
rot-gut. They wouldn't waste time listening to talk shows that they could engage
in. So all the audience ends up being conservative and yells at the
host.

Are you kidding me?  Eminem has no friends
politically.  I tend to think he sways either conservative or libertarian
(politically) more than liberal.  Especially the way he bashes
gays and race baiters.  Im no fan of him, but the guy is an interesting
individual to study objectively.

Just my opinion

[Helen]

"Few people want to listen to a liberal screaming like a banshee about how immoral he thinks the death penalty is..."

...and in the next breath screaming like a banshee about how it's okay to kill babies. Doesn't make for a real good argument.

[Pharmboy]

Posted here and and here and here

[xzins]

skits....entertaining

An admission of the truth. The liberal base isn't interested in political discussion. They get their politics from sitcoms.

I guess this will eventually be the return of "The Shadow."

It won't be talk radio. It'll be entertainment radio interspersed with the opinions of the DJ and/or host. What's new about that?

[LaraCroft]

"Progressives historically don't run in a pack," Rosenstiel added. "There's a kind of independent streak to the left wing in America that there isn't in the right wing."

Yeah, and the fact that all the protestors have the same signs.. coincidence. Or all gun control groups utter the exact same words and press releases... utter coincidence. Amazing.

[MrB]

I just hope these people that have more socialist ideology than business sense dump TONS of money on this project.

We should even go recruiting for liberal investors.

This will be a failing business adventure, and all the money invested will be wasted. Every dollar wasted in this way stays out of Hillary!s pocket.

[MrB]

“Progressive” is not another term for liberal... it means socialist.

Here's something I'd like to see on a bumper sticker:
Progressive?
My A$$. You're a
COMMIE.

Short, sweet, to the point.

[TennTuxedo]

Just so we're clear. Conservative radio hosts, from Rush Limbaugh to Dr. Laura to a whole pack of local talk jocks, have all succeeded over the past decade because of slick marketing and more sophisticated programming. Poor naive liberals just never quite caught on. But now that they have, watch out! They'll they'll walk all over Limbaugh in daily share in no time. Anyone want to venture a few million's worth of capital on that theory?

Without a worthwhile message, few will listen, thus they will not secure many advertisers to sponsor the show. Without sponsorship, no show lasts long.

[TomServo]

we think it's created a hole in the market you could drive a truck through.

Similar to the same hole created by liberal "logic".

[LaraCroft]

One point that everyone seems to be missing is that the left DOES have the 'gift', evil as it may be of mobilizing people and of getting thier word out.. marketing their views in a way that makes it seem far bigger than it is.

Instead of laughing and pointing, perhaps we should learn what to do to get a few million people to show up for a rally and to get the federal goverment to fund out TV and Radio.

[MrB]

...and in the next breath screaming like a banshee about how it's okay to kill babies.

You know they always state it as "a woman's right to control her own body".

They are slowly giving up on the "pro-choice" misnomer. We're calling them on that, because they aren't prochoice on the fruits of "my body's" labor, where we send our kids to school, how we choose to defend ourselves and homes, etc.
I always tag them when they say prochoice - "choice to do what? Oh, yeah, kill babies!", then I go through the list of what they're not "pro-choice" about.

[Teacher317]

Make sure ya'll invest a TON of cash, Lefties! Throw money at it and it's sure to succeed!

[Steel Wolf]

"We believe this is a tremendous business opportunity," Atlanta radio executive Jon Sinton said Monday. Sinton, who would be the network's chief executive, added, "There are so many right-wing talk shows, we think it's created a hole in the market you could drive a truck through."

"We believe this is a tremendous intellectual opportunity," amatuer internet cyberpundit Steel Wolf said Wednesday. Wolf, who occasionally posts on Free Republic, added, "There are many right-wing talk shows, and we think they point out the holes in liberal arguements you could drive a truck through."

[johnny7]

I'll buy that. One of the bumber-stickers I always hated was “My Child is an Honor Student”.