Net catching wider segment of public views (a local mini FR in Florida)

News-Press via Florida SOUNDOFF ^ | 08-24-03 | DAVID E. PLAZAS

[Publius6961]

The site last week criticized the district for releasing a draft community annual report with budget percentages on a pie chart that didn’t correspond to the size of the slices.

How many reading this actually believe that this happened "accidentally", as in a "draft "error"?

[Publius6961]

The Talk Radio Airwaves are very important in reaching potential converts, in expressing passion and sincerity, and in reaching those who are not on-line such as older people. I hope conservatives are not abandoning talk radio to the liberals –

The problem with that is an intractable one: both with talk radio and "call in" TV.
The callers can be selectively given air time, and no better propaganda device exists.

The hijacking of even talk radio is so common, where what seem like articulate, knowledgeable people can rant non-stop about things which are 100% wrong.
My response to that is simply to change stations. However, some "reasonable" hosts want to do this, in the hope of exposing really pathological groups. The problem with that is that something like California politics results. Overestmating the intelligence of the voting public.

[AAABEST]

The hijacking of even talk radio is so common, where what seem like articulate, knowledgeable people can rant non-stop about things which are 100% wrong.

I agree that what you're referring to is a pitfall, but not a fatal flaw. In an open and free (with limitations) environment the cream usually floats to the top.

If you think about it we've never been able to really talk to each other freely on a larger scale, except with those in our physical surroundings. All of the media and mediums in the past have been controlled by just a few.

To me the internet and talk radio is our only hope. Think of where we'd be without Rush and FR.