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Talk radio needs some balance [petulant liberal jeremiad BARF ALERT]
St. Paul Pioneer Press ^
| 12/23/02
| Wayne Madsen
Posted on 12/23/2002 4:05:51 AM PST by rhema
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Fortunately, this article appeared in the more journalistically balanced of the two Twin Cities dailies,
St. Paul Pioneer Press, where it was paired with Amy Ridenour's
Liberals should stop whining.
The remorselessly, monolithically liberal Minneapolis Star Tribune probably wouldn't have suffered Ridenour's article to see the light of day.
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posted on
12/23/2002 4:05:52 AM PST
by
rhema
To: rhema
"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"
To: rhema
Maybe Donahue could do a radio program. [I hear he will be looking for a new gig in January 2003.]
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posted on
12/23/2002 4:13:07 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: rhema
Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois told National Public Radio... YEAH, we need more stations just like NPR. /sarcasm
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posted on
12/23/2002 4:15:57 AM PST
by
Drango
To: Shenandoah
"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!" But with the force of judicial fiat, they're the most zealous truth suppressors on the planet, Chicoms included.
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posted on
12/23/2002 4:18:35 AM PST
by
rhema
To: rhema
Liberal alternatives cannot be found on the public commercial airwaves. What the heck then is National Public Ratio?
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posted on
12/23/2002 4:19:27 AM PST
by
OldPossum
To: rhema
...With Gore, Daschle and Durbin all finally aware of the misuse of the public commercial airwaves by the Republican Party and its rightist allies, the FCC's commissioners must revisit the Fairness Doctrine...Sponsor of the Gore, Daschle and Durbin Radio Show...
To: TomGuy
Maybe Donahue could do a radio program. [I hear he will be looking for a new gig in January 2003.] He may be vying with Minnesota's ex-governor for that gig.
(Actually, I have it on very good authority -- a member of the Ventura cabinet to whom I spoke yesterday -- that Jesse's more interested in a Hardball-type television show.)
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posted on
12/23/2002 4:21:40 AM PST
by
rhema
To: rhema; Drango
Good post. Hooray for Michael Powell. Drango thanks for the Stein link yesterday.
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posted on
12/23/2002 4:23:39 AM PST
by
PGalt
To: Drango
YEAH, we need more stations just like NPR. /sarcasm I'm trying to remember: Is NPR the media outlet with the "Fair and balanced. We report; you decide" motto?
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posted on
12/23/2002 4:24:01 AM PST
by
rhema
To: rhema
Some years ago host Ken Hamblin dubbed talk radio "the Voice of the Real America..."
And I firmly believe he was dead-on correct. I listen to the local show besides the "big voices" like Rush & Hannity, and you know what? I hear real people, real concerns, and honest opinions... and a lot of stuff that will never be voiced on television, or in national papers. Not because it's rude or wrong or bigoted, but because it doesn't fit the left-wing template of the mainstream media.
Talk radio ( charmingly called "talkback radio" in Australia... ) gives a voice to all us folks in flyover country who are held in such disdain by some.
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posted on
12/23/2002 4:25:54 AM PST
by
backhoe
To: Oldeconomybuyer
[Sominex]Sponsor of the Gore, Daschle and Durbin Radio Show Listeners surely won't need any soporific other than the show itself.
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posted on
12/23/2002 4:27:23 AM PST
by
rhema
To: rhema
As I recall, aren't most of the newspapers members of large conglomerates?
We should worry about radio networks, but left wing liberal newspaper "networks" spewing socialist, liberal, left wing propoganda, that is OK?
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posted on
12/23/2002 4:28:28 AM PST
by
BB2
To: rhema
Liberals have no need for information radio or information TV. They have CNNNBCABCCBSPBSMSNBC all locked up!!!!!
We gave them Phil, they gave him back!
It's not equal time they want, it's suppression of information they want.
Suppression - Conscious exclusion of unacceptable desires, thoughts, or memories from the mind. (American Heritage Dict)
To: rhema
I'm trying to remember: Is NPR the media outlet with the "Fair and balanced. We report; you decide" motto? Don't laugh but "Public Broadcasting" already has a "Fairness Doctrine". That's right, they are required by law to be balanced.
(SNORT...I just blew coffee all over)
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posted on
12/23/2002 4:31:57 AM PST
by
Drango
To: rhema
A few liberals, like Jim Hightower, found an outlet on a few public radio stations, but their reach to the general public is worse than Radio Free Europe's during the days of Soviet radio jamming.
To Wayne Madsen: I've heard Jim Hightower. Sometimes it's his assumptions that turn me off....sometimes it's his conclusions. In either case I disagree with him. And I think I'm every bit as smart as he is. (I've listened to Rush....he sees things that I don't.)
Besides, radio is a business. If he can't hold an audience then radio stations shouldn't be forced to carry him.
It's the bottom-line, stupid.
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posted on
12/23/2002 4:35:38 AM PST
by
xzins
To: rhema
Liberal alternatives cannot be found on the public commercial airwaves. A few liberals, like Jim Hightower, found an outlet on a few public radio stations, Makes sense, as government is a god to liberals.
To: rhema; OldPossum
It is high time for the Federal Communications Commission to re-institute its traditional Fairness Doctrine and guarantee equal access for all points of view over the public that is our airwaves.In the market place of ideas the socialists fail. If no one wanted to listen to conservative talk radio then advertisers wouldn't support it and the station would have to do something else. Doesn't anyone remember the failed attempt of Mario Cuomo?
Liberal alternatives cannot be found on the public commercial airwaves. What the heck then is National Public Ratio? Prime example of why the socialists require the government to force their whacky ideas down citizens throats.
To: backhoe
Talk radio ( charmingly called "talkback radio" in Australia... ) gives a voice to all us folks in flyover country who are held in such disdain by some. Back in the '60s and '70's, when I started listening to the radio, WERE in Cleveland used the phrase "talk back radio".
To: rhema
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