Posted on 02/14/2024 8:19:58 PM PST by stars & stripes forever
“Radio is dead...”
It isn’t, really.
Most stations are FM; the preponderance are sports, music. Very few major stations noted.
George never runs out of money. Amazing.
It was exactly during this period where conservative media got a foothold and has been able to provide an alternative to the dominant, old, progressive media.
It was exactly during this timeframe Rush Limbaugh changed talk radio forever.
Hard to see this as a disaster.
I’m 65 and, like you, I quit listening to the radio at least 10 years ago. I listen to podcasts and Apple Music.
But now it’s led to media consolidation. And the oligarchs own it all.
There is a clear potential for censorship by ownership. We see it with Google, Facebook, formerly Twitter.
It seems to require a guiding hand of government, as we saw in the last election and to some extent, currently.
Maybe we need to break up the concentrations. However, it also appears more alternate news is getting out more than ever.
We obviously need to prevent government and oligopoly media collusion.
The nazis had a term for this coordination: Gleichschaltung
We're soaking in it.
George Soros To Take Control Of America’s Second-Largest Chain Of Radio Stations.
CNN and MSNBC and network news was already taken.
Yep, especially AM.
With Rush gone for 3 years, AM radio is finished. I haven't even turned on the radio since he died.
Yes, he singlehandedly resurrected AM, and it was a single point of failure when he died.
Yep.
Went into bankruptcy in 2010.
Yes, all of you might not turn on the transistor radio anymore, but you all should tune your radio apps to WMAL in DC.
Every show during the day is worth listening to.
Larry O’Connor, Chris Plante (the best!), Dan Bongino, Vince Coglianese, and Mark Levin are the five best conservative hosts on the radio.
Later on, they still have the John Batchelor Show, which is NPR, but true, and he has a lot of space and history experts, too.
The portable radio might be a thing of the past, except for those of us Luddites that think AM/FM/Shortwave radios might be useful in certain events, but good radio hosts are still important.
I absolutely agree, and the line up on MAL sounds great.
I know I’ll tune in.
Thanks, Van.
Regards
Most of those radio hosts are available on some form of streaming or podcast, which is what most people are doing these days.
Are US taxpayers being scammed by foreign aid “good cop, bad cop” money grabs?
George Soros is the spendthrift billionaire with an endless supply of money to screw up American politics. Now, new revelations suggest Soros appears to be doing the “good cop, bad cop” routine (to get his hands on US foreign aid tax dollars?).
Soros has expressed outright hostility to Israel and Zionism time and time again. It’s no secret. So to discover Soros, is, in fact, one of the largest donors to one of the Israeli lobbies-—— the J Street lobby-—— is a revelation.
J Street has suggested, time and time again, that Soros was not an Israel supporter. But Eli Lake was quoted in the Atlantic WRT Soros and his family giving J Street $750,000 to J Street over a one year period.
The scandal grows from a decision by Jeremy Ben-Ami, founder and president of J Street, to cover-up, over a long period of time, something he knew to be true: That George Soros, the billionaire moneyman and self-avowed dissident of Israel, provided the Israeli J Street Lobby with almost $750,000 in funding.
James Besser, at The New York Jewish Week, frames the impact of this cover-up in stark and simple terms: “There’s no way this isn’t going to make the US politicians supported by J Street and those who may be considering accepting its endorsement incredibly nervous. Instead of providing protection for the politicians they supported, J Street essentially hung them out to dry by lying about their connection to the controversial moneyman Soros.”
An Atlantic reporter, Chris Good, was one of the journalists lied to by J Street; he ripped the organization a new one once he learned he was the target of J Street’s disinformation campaign.
News of the Soros J Street donation, first brought to light by Eli Lake, an in-demand ace reporter, was accompanied by disclosures about a larger, and stranger, donation, by a resident of Hong Kong. J Street supporters on Capitol Hill are worried that the organization is using foreign money to provide money to American political candidates, and encouraging foreigners to support Israeli funding in US legislation.
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