It will always have its following. Problems is with the suits who can't think in terms of the talk format being about anything but "conservative"...
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Has right wing talk radio peaked ?
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The liberals are in luck! Finally, there is formidable competition for Rush: "Keepin' It Real" with Rev. Al Sharpton is on the air. Hopefully it is in your market. If not, it's available online. Be sure to get your station to carry his show. Listen in, and get your friends to listen.
Since the only reason right-wing talk radio has succeeded has been because there have not been any liberals on the air (forget about Daschle, Gore, Hightower, Dean). Let's watch Sharpton ZOOM to the top in ratings.
Since the only reason right-wing talk radio has succeeded has been because there have not been any liberals on the air (forget about Daschle, Gore, Hightower, Dean). Let's watch Sharpton ZOOM to the top in ratings.
When the flash mobs hit the streets in Philly and Madison Wisconsin, and other places, has the Reverend Al Sharpton spoken out against such evil actions? I've not seen or heard any of his usual pronouncements, picketing, etc, when something like this happens. Oh yea, he's keepin' it real, but only when black people are the victims?? What a hypocrite. Dr. Martin Luther King advocated for all people. Dr. King had something of value to say. Sharpton's a phony-baloney. You want to hear a good Progressive Talk Show, check out the Thom Hartmann Show.
All entertainment forms go through busts and booms, like many other endeavors. I will say that I think the Internet is taking a bit of the sting off the massive syndicated shows. 15 years ago, it was hard to find the real stories between what AP, and the three networks wanted you to hear. Now you have the news in front of you on the phone an hour before Shep Smith sits down in his anchor chair, having read the same text message you got.
Radio is evolving, talk must evolve too. Radio will still be the medium for conservative voices, and print and TV will remain the source of liberal voices. Both sides seem comfortable where they are. That's why conservative TV shows (with the exception of Fox News, but even they have libs in pretty prominent positions. And for all the excuses about bad promotion, bad signals and all that hogash, liberal talk radio always fails because the talented liberal people tend to want to do TV or Internet blogging. These guys tend to be younger.
Of course I've done no studies on this but the premise of the article inspired me to tell everyone here what I tell anyone who asks if conservative radio is going away. My answer: "No. Neither are liberal CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox (not Fox News), dozens of cable channels, hundreds of newspapers, and so on and so on. Approximately 40% of the people identify as "conservative". As is human nature, we want to hear people reaffirm our beliefs. No you know why conservative talk is going nowhere, despite the calls and complaints.
Radio is evolving, talk must evolve too. Radio will still be the medium for conservative voices, and print and TV will remain the source of liberal voices. Both sides seem comfortable where they are. That's why conservative TV shows (with the exception of Fox News, but even they have libs in pretty prominent positions. And for all the excuses about bad promotion, bad signals and all that hogash, liberal talk radio always fails because the talented liberal people tend to want to do TV or Internet blogging. These guys tend to be younger.
Of course I've done no studies on this but the premise of the article inspired me to tell everyone here what I tell anyone who asks if conservative radio is going away. My answer: "No. Neither are liberal CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox (not Fox News), dozens of cable channels, hundreds of newspapers, and so on and so on. Approximately 40% of the people identify as "conservative". As is human nature, we want to hear people reaffirm our beliefs. No you know why conservative talk is going nowhere, despite the calls and complaints.
MikefromDelaware said:
Help me out here. I missed the news on the Ultimate Flash Mobs in Madison, WI. What did they do? What was the "evil" that would possibly attract the interest of Al Sharpton?
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Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:
i do not know if that is the case but there have been cases where flash mobs of mass theft and vandalism have occured organized like dance number flash mob in some cities.
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flashback said:
Here's the Christian Science Monitor article on Wisconsin flash mobs
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2011/0812/Wisconsin-State-Fair-mob-attack-Police-seek-hate-crime-charges
zrl said:
This thread is a classic, gold-plated example of what the hell is wrong with meaningful conversation in America today.
The Christian Science Monitor article does not refer to the "mob" attack at the sate fair as a "FLASH mob" event. It was portrayed as something of a event fueled by opportunity and racism. It took place in the Milwaukee area, not in Madison. Milwaukee is a city that certainly has its share of racial tensions through the years.
In Madison there have been some "Flash Mob" events that are not even remarkable, not even making national news. If you know Madison and its "student ghetto" area you know that the events you can Google that are on YouTube about a Flash Mob Event are probably well below the typical everyday "noise level" of that community.
(My wife and I were in the hospital at the same time so a family member from MADISON WI is in my house today helping us get our lives organized to deal with "Life after the hospital". She was in Madison Monday morning and arrived here Monday night. When I asked her about the Madison Flash Mobs, she said "Huh? What?"
I don't think there was anything recently in Madison WI that we should suggest Al Sharpton would comment on. Milwaukee? Maybe a comment by him would be in order or expected.
Goat Rodeo Cowboy, I guessed at the Wisconsin city and picked Madison, I just couldn't remember which city in the cheese state it was ( I knew it began with an "M"). Apparently it was Milwaukee. The point was, this flashmob thing happened in both Milwaukee at their state fair and in downtown Philadelphia. You should be able to find some news links for that online. The mayor of Philly, a black man, reamed out those thugs, telling them to pull up their pants, etc, which also made news. So yes the two events did happen, but my point was that Al Sharpton didn't have anything to say about that, but had the roles been reversed and it had been white kids flash mobbing black folks in either Milwaukee or Philly, Sharpton would have been using his MSNBC show to say a lot about that. I was pointing out Al Sharpton's hypocrisy. Sharpton's no Martin Luther King. King worked for all Americans.
MikefromDelaware said:
Mike: I have the same difficulty keeping cities/markets straight in your area. I read posts where you and others are discussing various markets that surround Philly and I am lost geographically. Once in a while I look up towns in your area just trying to get a mental picture of what happens where.
In the last hour I did some additional Google searching on this topic and was amazed in the difference between the results of this morning's search compared to yesterday's similar search. That lead to an interesting discussion with my house-guest for the week who is something of a professional level Google user. We discussed the "Goggle dynamic filters"... my terminology... I don't know what "the big boys" say to describe it. Google keeps up with what a person tends to search for. Google (supposedly?) tries to guess what you really are searching for but didn't fully flesh out your search words. We assume that made a difference in what I got from this morning's search compared to yesterday, because some of the stuff that showed up today that didn't show up this morning was published on Sunday the 4th. ***see below
Virtually every thing that came back about Milwaukee, West Allis, Wisconsin State Fair and violence that used the terminology "flash mob" was a Right Wing oriented publication or web site. Those references that came back from main stream publications and web sites on the Left talk about the violence at the Wisconsin State Fair as looking like violence that is racially motivated without any reference to "Flash Mob".
"Flash Mob" is a relatively new addition to the American vocabulary and as we speak it is about to be redefined so it can become an "ugly word" that we use to spice and flavor our political rhetoric today.
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If the "Google Dynamic Filters" concept is real, then you and I could type the exact same search words into Google and we would each receive different returned results. My "Google expert" says that if she searches on her work computer (a laptop that goes with her) and on her desktop machine at home, she indeed gets different results from Google.
But still back to my point, Al Sharpton has not spoken out against that sort of racial violence.
What you are saying about the Google filters is very interesting. So those computer systems at Google, Yahoo, etc, know much more about each of us than we'd probably want them to know. Maybe Big Brother is here via the Internet.
What you are saying about the Google filters is very interesting. So those computer systems at Google, Yahoo, etc, know much more about each of us than we'd probably want them to know. Maybe Big Brother is here via the Internet.
That question has been on the message boards as long as there's been message boards. Talk radio has been around longer than music radio, and it'll be around as long as there's radio People will always talk about something on the radio, and some people will always call some of it right wing and others will call some of it left wing.
Talk radio popularity fluctuates like the width of ties. It usually goes up when there's something interesting to talk about and down when there's not. Or when there's something more interesting to do, like watching the O. J. Simpson trial on TV. And sometimes it just fluctuates for no apparent reason.
I don't expect it to change any time soon.
Talk radio popularity fluctuates like the width of ties. It usually goes up when there's something interesting to talk about and down when there's not. Or when there's something more interesting to do, like watching the O. J. Simpson trial on TV. And sometimes it just fluctuates for no apparent reason.
I don't expect it to change any time soon.
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