[rhema]

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.

[Shenandoah]

"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"

[TomGuy]

Maybe Donahue could do a radio program. [I hear he will be looking for a new gig in January 2003.]

[Drango]

Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois told National Public Radio...

YEAH, we need more stations just like NPR. /sarcasm

[OldPossum]

Liberal alternatives cannot be found on the public commercial airwaves. What the heck then is National Public Ratio?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

...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...

[PGalt]

Good post. Hooray for Michael Powell. Drango thanks for the Stein link yesterday.

[backhoe]

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.

[JoeSixPack1]

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)

[xzins]

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.

[StriperSniper]

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.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

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.

[Springman]

Bump for later.

[Lennie]

The reason liberals aren't big into talk show is that they don't like to be challenged because they can't defend their agenda. On talk show, there would be people calling in and the libs would not be able to answer caller's comments.

It's a free enterprise and nobody is keeping liberals from starting their own program, providing they have sponsers. It's been tried and they know they wouldn't last.

[goldstategop]

What upsets Wayne Madsen is the public doesn't want to listen to liberals' tell them how wrong they are, how eeevil America is, and how the Republicans are a blight upon our political landscape. People don't want to hear it, period. The problem liberals have isn't a lack of sufficient outlets to spread their message; its their message the public rejects. And Madsen's wanting to revisit the Fair Doctrine won't change one iota the chilly public reception towards the liberal vision for America and its future.

[Calvin Locke]

Here's a thread (different day, same theme) from yesterday. I'm guessing I can probably guess what the DNC fax machines were spewing out last week.

Why Talk Radio Runs to the Right

[dighton]

It's quite simple, Wayne. When I'm driving and listening to talk radio, I don't need someone like you NAGGING me.

[smith288]

[Always Right]

Soon, both local and nationally syndicated Rush wannabes began offering a daily concoction of right-wing politics to a public that largely ignored their local newspapers and relied upon the radio rants for their news.

Well, that is an outright lie. Rush's listeners get their news from many diverse sourses. Rush is a suppliment to the left-wing Newspapers and Networks for most of his listeners.

Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois told National Public Radio that there is "station after station of right-wing screamers."

LOL, he mentions NPR without mentioning they are the taxpayers funded left-wing zeolots. Of course left-wing zeolots can't survive on their own.

[jackd]

You should try reading the ultra-liberal Baltimore Sun. If this article is crying for fairness in reporting, haven't they ever heard of national public radio? NPR is as blatantly one-sided as Rush but their subtlety in spreading the liberal mantra is well known. Does this individual perhaps live in a cave?

[wayoverontheright]

The Fairness Doctrine was scrapped by the FCC in 1987 during a time when Ronald Reagan was out to get the government out of practically every facet of our lives. But the deregulation by the FCC of radio only ensured that mega-media corporations were able to gobble up more and more independently owned stations and then offer up zealots like Rush Limbaugh and what Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., calls Rush wannabes on hundreds of radio stations across the country.

"There's just too much FREEDOM around here, I tell you, and we need the GOVERNMENT to do something about it."

"I'll bet there's a right wing conspiracy to go into homes, cars and businesses and FORCE the people to listen to that right wing spew."