The remorselessly, monolithically liberal Minneapolis Star Tribune probably wouldn't have suffered Ridenour's article to see the light of day.
Media Matters
NPR: Is it Left, Right or Center?
By Jeffrey A. Dvorkin
Ombudsman
National Public Radio
NPR can't shake the reputation that it's biased in favor of the left.
Listeners (and those who say they are) write constantly to complain about what they sense is a partisan role by NPR specifically and by public radio overall.
For the sake of argument, let's assume that NPR is as left leaning as a lot of media critics claim it is. But a recent study of radio talk shows claims that there are now more than 50 nationally syndicated conservative talk show hosts. Wouldn't the predominance of conservative radio talk shows mean that NPR is actually fulfilling an important civic role in providing other perspectives?...
Ahhh, those were the days!
. . . get the government out of practically every facet of our lives.
I just had to print that again. Those words are music to my ears.
Just as soon as the FCC gives conservatives equal time on TV ...
The big problem with this is that forcing radio stations to carry liberal talk show hosts would kill talk radio. It has been proven time & again that liberals do very poorly on talk radio. There go the ratings and there go the ad revenues.
End of story—there already is equal access. No one wants to listen to liberal talk radio.
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.
I know. I hate when the peasants don’t get their news from our properly sanctioned sources. </ sarcasm>
And it does not help when a Rush wannabe in Boston refers to the soon-to-be Senate minority leader as "Dass-hole."
Yeah, and the Dems would never resort to name-calling. < /sarcasm again>
I don't ignore my local newspaper. Whomever the St. Louis Compost-Dispatch endorses, I vote against. (Wait . . . that would be just . . . all the Democrats. OK, that's a lot simpler.)
Besides, I do read the sports section.
. . . when Ronald Reagan was out to get the government out of practically every facet of our lives.
to gobble up more
zealots like Rush Limbaugh
Rush wannabes
a daily concoction of right-wing politics
the radio rants
the vitriol
the propaganda
right-wing Internet sites
political misuse
worse than Radio Free Europe's during the days of Soviet radio jamming.
helping to destroy America's way of life rather than claiming to protect it.
the talk-show blatherers
invective tones of hate and retribution.
playing into the hands of many racists and xenophobes
"station after station of right-wing screamers."
...need some balance. Its time to enforce the "Fairness" doctrine on them.
...on right-wing Internet sites like the Drudge Report, World Net Daily and News Max.
What?!!? No FreeRepublic?
AGAINST DASCHLE???
If anything, the anthrax mailed to Daschle was a successful attempt to inspire terror in government and the media (Tom Brokaw, the National Enquirer, the New York Post) which would have the effect of intensifying scrutiny of the apologists for the attacks living in this country!
I defy the author to name one person who said that Tom Daschle should be killed because of his complicity in the September 11th attacks!
What are you smoking, duuuude?
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!
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.
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.