NPR is "moderate". Liberals perceive it as conservative and conservatives perceive it as liberal.
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NPR is "moderate". Liberals perceive it as conservative and conservatives perceive it as liberal.
You're joking, right? Because more than half of my AM dial is loaded with anything but conservative talk.
In my metro there are two Hispanic and Latino music stations; two ESPN Deportes outlets; several religious stations (including two Catholic stations); two Korean stations; two brokered stations with Korean, Chinese and Russian programming; five sports talk outlets; an all-news station; a talk station with conservative and progressive shows; and a business talker. And three conservative talk stations.
If AM radio is dying it's because it has been replaced by FM and online streaming.
You're joking, right? This scenario is true only if you are living in one of the largest cities. In this medium-size market, there are two right-wing talkers, three sports talkers, one religious daytimer (which really functions half the time as a conservatalker) and a rimshot oldies station from just outside the area.
Except for the "Latino music station" on AM, that sounds almost like LA, which has none. But it has a fulltime Farsi station and another fulltimer in Vietnamese, 4 mixed Asian language brokered stations, four Korean language stations, including one Korean religious station but no business news station.
Portland has had an all Business station for over 25 years, no ratings but it keeps going.
You could say that 1/2 of AM is variations of Conservative Talk ONLY if you include Christian/Catholic radio in that mix. Sports is still done, heavily, on AM.
I don't know of any liberals that call NPR conservative or right of center. Most card carrying libs i know (most are 30 somethings) love NPR.
I don't know of any liberals that call NPR conservative or right of center. Most card carrying libs i know (most are 30 somethings) love NPR.
I noticed a lack of left-wing talkers. I wonder why?
Left Wingers don't need constant reinforcement.
Most of the left wingers I know (and that's quite a few) get their info from NPR and left wing «news» blogs like Raw Story, Media Matters, Daily Kos, etc. The internet seems to be their #1 confirmation bias source.
And like was just said above: read the comments on the Daily Kos stories. It's a lot of bluster & heat. It's their version of conservative talk radio.
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Hmmm...from what I can see, the internet is filled with all sides of the spectrum. Not just one.
Right on!
You can get anything you want......at Alice's Restaurant!
I am really curios to know who sets the rules by which people are sorted into liberal, progressive, left-wingers etc. It is interesting to read all these posts by experts who know what left wingers are reading and listening to.
Yes, I am aware of some "media darlings" who present themselves as representing one of these groups... but as I go through life I guess I can't reach out among all the people I know and say: "Him... that guy over there... he is a left-winger!" How can I tell? Do left wingers wear funny looking clothes? Do they practice strange personal grooming?
I guess I live in a part of the country where if you are liberal or left-wing or worse, you just keep your mouth shut so no one will know. All around me there are people who give voice to their conservative bona-fides... and some of them demonstrate their affection for the idea of going beyond conservative and billing themselves as Tea Party.
I guess I did have a friend a dozen years ago who expressed his liberalness. I had been elected to attend a national church gathering as a voting participant and he knew I was being hammered and lobbied by a number of people on just how I should vote at the meeting and my friend (now deceased) took me aside one day and said: "When you are being pressured on how to vote, just tell them that this one guy who is 'liberal as hell' told you that he gives you permission to vote liberal when it looks like the right thing to do."
The day of his funeral the man's son and the minister were chatting just before the funeral and I went over and told that story to them. The son's face lit up as he laughed and said: "That was my Dad!" That son at the time of the conversation I had with his father was Chairman of the Republican Party in what is said to be the second most Conservative county in America.
So if any of you have any spare liberals you could loan out, could you send me two or three. I just want to follow them around. See how they dress, how the groom, observe what they listen to if they choose to turn on the radio. I am really getting an inferiority complex as I read all these reports by people who have all the inside scoop on what left wingers are like.... and WHAT they like.
Yes, I am aware of some "media darlings" who present themselves as representing one of these groups... but as I go through life I guess I can't reach out among all the people I know and say: "Him... that guy over there... he is a left-winger!" How can I tell? Do left wingers wear funny looking clothes? Do they practice strange personal grooming?
I guess I live in a part of the country where if you are liberal or left-wing or worse, you just keep your mouth shut so no one will know. All around me there are people who give voice to their conservative bona-fides... and some of them demonstrate their affection for the idea of going beyond conservative and billing themselves as Tea Party.
I guess I did have a friend a dozen years ago who expressed his liberalness. I had been elected to attend a national church gathering as a voting participant and he knew I was being hammered and lobbied by a number of people on just how I should vote at the meeting and my friend (now deceased) took me aside one day and said: "When you are being pressured on how to vote, just tell them that this one guy who is 'liberal as hell' told you that he gives you permission to vote liberal when it looks like the right thing to do."
The day of his funeral the man's son and the minister were chatting just before the funeral and I went over and told that story to them. The son's face lit up as he laughed and said: "That was my Dad!" That son at the time of the conversation I had with his father was Chairman of the Republican Party in what is said to be the second most Conservative county in America.
So if any of you have any spare liberals you could loan out, could you send me two or three. I just want to follow them around. See how they dress, how the groom, observe what they listen to if they choose to turn on the radio. I am really getting an inferiority complex as I read all these reports by people who have all the inside scoop on what left wingers are like.... and WHAT they like.
A lot of markets have one sports talker that has a lot of the major play-by-play contracts on FM and a couple of stations tied to ESPN Radio and CBS Sports Radio on AM. And the one on FM pretty much always wins the ratings.
Christian teaching radio (including EWTN) tends to draw tiny audiences and is not a reason for 95% of people to hit the "AM" button on their radio.
But AM radio does. Without conservative talk a lot of AM radio guys would be standing in the soup line at the mission.
I guess that's possible, but it could play out another way. Without Talk Radio, maybe the stranglehold the Tea Party crowd has on our political system would go away, government could get back to work doing legitimate governance, the economy would pick up, and either there would be more revenue for AM radio in an improving economy, or there would be jobs available that beat working for an AM radio station.
Playing the "what if" card is just full of all kinds of wild card possibilities.
I thought this thread was about radio, not blogs...
Partisan differences, labeling and bickering has been around for centuries. Over the past 20 years, AM radio stations have been the pulpit for the Right that's been used to preach to the Right choir. Before radio and the demise of the Fairness Doctrine, there were newspapers who leaned one way or the other.
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