Capital Times - Joel McNally: What talk radio needs is more diversity of views

[bigtalkradiofan]

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Capital Times - Joel McNally: What talk radio needs is more diversity of views

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/136670

Joel McNally: What talk radio needs is more diversity of views

Joel McNally — 5/26/2007 8:57 am
The Capital Times
Joel McNally writes a weekly column for The Capital Times and co-hosts the "Morning Magazine" show from 6 to 10 a.m. weekdays on 1290 WMCS/AM in Milwaukee.

It's just my luck to be getting into radio at a time when talk show hosts are being fired left and right for saying things people don't like.

For someone who has made a career out of saying things a whole lot of people don't like to hear, it's like signing up for a hopscotch tournament in a minefield.

The recent wave of beheadings started when Don Imus, a cantankerous old misanthrope with a multimillion-dollar contract to say provocative and controversial things, got fired for saying something provocative and controversial.

Using racist gutter talk to describe championship-caliber, young, black women was certainly tasteless. But it was no more or less tasteless than the outrageous talk on which Imus had built his entire career.

At the time, I thought African Americans were far too quick to celebrate the censorship of Imus. Like all of our laws including those against hate speech, any sanctions that punish whites in our society end up being used even more against African Americans.

Sure enough, after a few days of controversy over what some old white guy said, the entire conversation somehow got diverted into a condemnation of rap, hip-hop and black popular music. ...

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[JbeJay]

Re: Capital Times - Joel McNally: What talk radio needs is more diversity of vie

Not agreeing, or disagreeing with this newspaper article

Okay. I'll disagree with it. The article is nothing but a self-serving piece by a mediocre newspaper writer who is now doubling as a mediocre radio voice. Thus in his final paragraph he summarizes:
"We desperately need more points of view on the radio. That's why I hope to continue providing my own alternative view ..."

But the station he is complaining about is #1 in the market. The station he is on has literally a fraction of a share point. Has it occurred to him that nobody wants to hear his "alternative view"?

 

[TheFonz]

Joel McNally: What talk radio needs is more diversity of views

Didn't Air America try that? Nobody listened. It's all about revenue, Joel.