I love it when I report something, liberals say it is not true...then I am proven correct...
I'll probably show you the link I put up originally when I have time, but it is true...
Air America is broke, and I'll say its because they spew broken, old hippie ideas.
You cant constantly say I hate Bush, conservatives are nazi's, bla bla bla over and over and have it work....There are no ideas in liberalism, just raw emotion...they stopped having ideas around 1965.
Here is the proof....conservative radio gets millions and millions daily, why?
Friday, October 13, 2006
Air America Radio Files for Chapter 11
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No more Air Hate-America! *sniff*
Oh well, at least the liberals still have CBS, NBC, ABC, MS-LSD, CNN, and PBS.
great point...I was going to go over why Air America is a failure, that is one of the points
Uhhh, whether a radio format competes as well as another is no indication of the ideology.
Wonder what lie started this rumor this time?
You were wrong then. Now you're not.
Maybe not, Jim. As I understand it, based on local news item, they indeed were ready to file before (that is they were in that kind of bad shape) but deflected such talk publicly due to a hoped for agreement to go through that would have saved them. It fell apart and now they have nothing and have no choice but to file.
Rhyno,
Their format really wasn't much different than other radio talk shows, so it had to be their ideology, whatever that may be, no one knows. If they had a message, or people who could articulate it (were they to actually have a message) they would attract listeners which would in turn attract advertisers. They never got the former, so they couldn't get the latter. The only other possibility is that the left is too lazy to pay attention to issues on a daily basis and feel they have all they need with their mantra of "I hate Bush and the Republicans." So with that irrational, unsupportable but firmly entrenched belief filling what little they have between the ears, they aren't likely to feel a need to listen to talk radio.
Lib radio never works except for NPR, which doesn't rely exclusively on advertising dollars. Their donatios keep them afloat. With them, it's much like the Chicago Cubs. They're losers, but the yuppie latte crowd keep buying tickets. Same with NPR.
What's a donatio? Damn fingers.
Maybe it's not that it's "liberal" radio. Is there a conservative version of Air America? I don't know; I'm asking. Because I think the most successful wingnut talk shows are syndicated, have been around for years, AND many are buttressed by television.
There are successful liberal talk show hosts all over the country. No, they don't have the name recognition of Limbaugh, O'Reilly, InsHannity, etc, but they are there nontheless and successful in their markets.
So I don't believe it's the format nor the ideology that's at issue. I think it is the business model.
Jim is slightly correct...
He is right that their are hundreds of liberal people in the media...they are very successful at ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, ect...
However, in the format of radio, I really don't know of anyone who gets good ratings.
In my market, conservative talk radio is the number one and five stations...the libs are on NPR and other stations I don't even know the name of, because they don't show up on the top 15 ratings list in the paper
Marshall, there is no correlation between the 'correctness' of the broadcast and its popularity. None. Its entertainment, only.
Name one, please?
Ed Schultz
Thom Hartmann
Randi Rhodes
Lynn Samuels
Enid Goldstein
Alan Colmes
Bill Press
Stephanie Miller
Bernie Ward
Is that a list of people who are successful, or whose salaries are either paid by boy's and girl's clubs, or the tax payers
They are successful talk show hosts. Rhodes is the only one I know of who is on Air America. She was successful before being on Air America.
So successful I never heard of her.
"Marshall, there is no correlation between the 'correctness' of the broadcast and its popularity."
Correct in the opinion of the listeners is what matters. People tuned into Rush because they weren't hearing what he was saying anywhere else. What he was saying reflected what the listeners were thinking. Thus, to those listeners, Rush was correct or his message was correct. You may believe the drool and drivel from anyone on Jim's list is correct, but they can't get national attention. In the opinion of the listeners, they are incorrect. There are a lot of people who are or can be entertaining. But in the arena of political or issues talk radio, they can't just get on and be "entertaining" and wrong and expect to keep an audience.
It's like a Robin Williams who does his schtick but the underlying message is not based on anything that's truth, but based on lib perception of truth. If I don't buy into that perception, there's no humor for me. If that's all his routine is like, the whole thing is unfunny and not entertaining. I won't listen.
People by and large don't waste a whole lot of time on falsehood. What point is there to listen to a political analyst who isn't truthful or correct? The message of the host, and the truth that is perceived to be in that message, does indeed have much to do with the success or failure of talk radio.
marshall--
Right on. Or should I say, Mega Dittos.
With many on the left, it is about having the correct feelings, while the right focuses on truthful thoughts. That's why the left always emphasizes how much they care, their commitment to social justice, their desire to be liked by unreliable allies, and why they are always on the lookout for homophobia, sexism, racism and so forth, as if a racist, as deplorable as racism is, could never say anything true.
If they were squaring evidence to theory, they'd have to look things honestly like the 40-year track record of failure of their utopian social programs, or perhaps the root cause of the movement to reestablish the Caliphate, which is radicalized Islam. It is better to just call Republicans hateful and question their emotions. Thought over there is limited to constructing conspiracy theories to condemn the west, explaining the actions of criminals and terrorists as a justified rebellion against big rich bullies.
very, very well put marshall
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