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Thread ID: 4416 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2003-01-10
2003-01-10 21:10 | User Profile
From The Los Angeles Times, available online at: [url=http://www.latimes.com/la-et-carney10jan10,0,5994346.story]http://www.latimes.com/la-et-carney10jan10...0,5994346.story[/url]
22% of Americans get news from talk jocks
By Steve Carney Special to The Times
January 10 2003
Rush Limbaugh lambastes "environmental wackos" and "feminazis" from his "Excellence in Broadcasting Network"; Bill O'Reilly thunders outrage from his "No-Spin Zone"; and one in five Americans call it getting their daily dose of news, according to a recent survey.
The poll examined news media preferences, and found that 22% of those surveyed said they get their news every day from talk radio programs. That figure is double what it was only four years ago, according to the Gallup Poll's Tuesday Briefing, released last week.
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2003-01-10 21:46 | User Profile
Centinel,
Neo-con radio has been crowing about this all day in Atlanta.
More deluded, brain dead people who are too damn stupid and lazy to inform themselves and prefer to let equally brain dead idiots like Hannity to think for them. What is even worse is that most of these nitwits who call in and sing the Neo-con line vote.
When I first started to listen to talk radio 12 years ago I had fond hopes for it. By 94 I was getting unhappy with it. By96 I decided that it was doing far more damage than good. It is my hope that the Democrats, true to form, run to the courts and try to invoke parts of the "Campaign Finance Reform" to get these idiots or worse off the air for the last two months before the election. I write what I did because I see the "liberals" and Neo-cons as both our enemies, so if they get in a food fight with each other, then t.s. A plague upon both their houses.
Rush can look at the bright side, he can think about all the time he has to name drop and talk about football and golf. :D
2003-01-10 21:59 | User Profile
The hosts are PROUD of this? I would be ashamed.
The good thing about forums like this one is that people obviously BRING things to the table from many different places and sources.
If this forum was just a bunch of guys throwing the same phrases back and forth, I'd leave.
And I think that says something about those listeners... :huh:
2003-01-10 22:05 | User Profile
Sertorius wrote:
When I first started to listen to talk radio 12 years ago I had fond hopes for it. By
94 I was getting unhappy with it. By96 I decided that it was doing far more damage than good.
That's because talk radio scared the pants off the ZOGsters in the early 90's, so they spent the last half of the 90's buying up dying radio stations across the country at 2x-3x their actual value (a deal the owners couldn't refuse) and canning radio hosts like Chuck Harder and others who rocked the boat, replacing them with syndicated Israel-Firsters (Limboob, Hannity, Weiner-Savage) who crowed the party line and whipped the masses into approved frenzies while avoiding discussion of issues damaging to the Israel lobby.
I've heard estimates that Clear Channel and Infinity own something like 80% of the radio stations in the US now. The only way I can listen to people like Chuck Harder, Alex Jones, and Jeff Rense is on streaming audio over the Internet.
**I write what I did because I see the "liberals" and Neo-cons as both our enemies, so if they get in a food fight with each other, then t.s. A plague upon both their houses. **
IMHO, talkradio is a major contributor to propping up the myth of a two-party system of fake Democratic liberals and fake Republican conservatives. When the Dems complain about "right-wing talkradio" it only perpetuates the myth....certainly if they and their Hollywood buddies wanted, they could start their own left-leaning radio stations and networks. Sertorius, I will readily admit, though, that I disdain neocons far more than limousine liberals and far leftists for the neutering they've done to conservatism. I imagine the far lefties hate their own beltway liberals more than conservatives for much the same reason.
Something else to consider...I don't begrudge people who get their news from talkradio because that's about all the news they can get. I'm talking about working people, who don't have time for anything else....truck drivers, construction workers, assembly workers who have a radio in the plant, etc. They just don't know that they're being fed controlled media on approved subjects with approved editorializing.
The real story behind this story is how illiterate, uncritical, and malleable the sheeple have become, the natural progression of an anti-intellectual culture that lives its life through television and is the product of a dumbed-down public school system. They tune into talkradio hosts that tell them what they want to hear, not knowing or caring what the truth might be.
Only a tiny fragment makes the effort to read anything. Newspaper readership is declining...partly due to the Net, but it was declining well before the Net came along as well. Foreign and alternative media, readily available online and mostly free for anyone who wants it, still doesn't factor into the average Joe's worldview.
2003-01-10 23:23 | User Profile
I started listening to talk radio in the summer of 1993, when Rush Limbaugh was on. For a while I was an avid listener to his show. I also listened to Bob Grant later that year, and was an avid listener to his show, every day, until about 1 1/2 years ago. These "conservative" talk show hosts were the domain of the Jewish Neo-cons and confused White lemmings. By the time I stopped listening to Grant I knew he was an avid Israeli apologist, as were his callers. What could be more boring than to hear about the "evil" Bill and Hillary Clinton and Mario Cuomo (for those of you who don't know him, he was a former N.Y. governor).
Limbaugh bored me eventually with his obvious self-righteousness and I stopped listening to him altogether. It took me a long time to stop listening to Grant, only because as much as I wanted to go "postal" whenever he would blabber about the poor, persecuted Chosenite and make any kind of references to Knotsies, his views on race were quite tolerable (until he became schmoozy with some black conservative types and when he had J.C. Watts as a guest years back, supposedly he had to prove to Watts that he wasn't a Raysist).