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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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Left wing radio will NEVER work. The only reason left wing TV garners any attention is because the visual part grabs that attention. It's a natural thing, that once you SEE what the clown looks like as he is performing, you're more likely to watch the performance through before registering opinion.

Radio, however, requires that you invest imagination to visualize the goof spouting the leftist tripe. People have less patience where their imagination is concerned, thus the quick trigger in flipping the dial for another station.

After all, nobody wants to hear excuse making, spin, bald faced lies, and left wing whining for even one second!

61 posted on 12/23/2002 5:03:08 PM PST by Wondervixen
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To: dighton
"...I don't need someone like you NAGGING me..."

'Nagging' is the word I'd use to describe this.

Petulant... Brittle... Effeminate...

Something about Wayne seems a little off, a little abnormal.

Does he admit to being afflicted with any kind of mental illness, such as homosexuality?

62 posted on 12/23/2002 5:12:50 PM PST by DWSUWF
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To: CurlyDave
"...big problem with this is that forcing radio stations to carry ..."

Force. The only tool of the state, and the liberals favorite.

63 posted on 12/24/2002 2:54:12 AM PST by Leisler
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To: rhema
AAFLAACK!
64 posted on 12/24/2002 2:59:42 AM PST by TAIPAN22001
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Here are my thoughts.

I guess we're going to have to keep shouting this out until it gets impressed upon the other side but here it goes.

THIS IS NOT A LIBERAL NATION. THIS IS NOT A PROGRESSIVE NATION. THIS IS NOT A MODERATE NATION. THIS IS A CONSERVATIVE NATION. A CONSERVATIVE NATION. GET IT???????!!!!!

Liberalism and progressivism has already been tried on the radio and it just doesn't sell at all. You want to kill AM Radio. You want to kill information radio and end up depriving people like myself of essential and vital information. Our only way of getting information when the T.V. goes down. Folks, T.V.'s don't have batteries. radios do.

Simply put, the public has spoken. THEY DO NOT WANT TO HEAR LIBERAL OR PROGRESSIVE OR MODERATE TALK ON THE RADIO. THEY WANT CONSERVATIVE TALK.Conservative talk is what's keeping vital sources of information on the air. By paying their utility bills in the form of advertising revenue.

And don't get me started on the Big three networks annd CNN. All they care about is their own special political agenda. They don't give a damn about the news and information consumers. I know of lots of people who have thrown bricks at their T.V.'s over gushing articles about the rapist X42 and Hillary.

These idiots writing about the need to bring back the fairness doctrine have no idea how the broadcast industry works. They think they know everytrhing but the reality is these are just a bunch of charletians with the I.Q. of a pencil sharpener.

The Democrat party is a criminal enterprise and these bozos have very little to teach and an awful lot to learn. The public does not to want hear their B.S. and C.F. They need to learn to accept that and stop this Fairness doctrine B.S. and C.F.
Regards.

65 posted on 12/24/2002 4:04:20 AM PST by E.G.C.
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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, but their reach to the general public is worse than Radio Free Europe's during the days of Soviet radio jamming.

Hightower used to be on private radio stations. I've heard him. Unfortunately his radio shows came off like simplistic cartoons of reality and were unlistenable and so like with his liberal cohort, Mario Cuomo, his show sunk due to the RATINGS.

66 posted on 12/24/2002 4:10:56 AM PST by PJ-Comix
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