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Hatchet Job on WFTL and Especially Kelley Mitchell in New Times (Broward-PB Edition)

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New Times Broward-PB Edition did a hatchet job
this week on WFTL and especially Kelley Mitchell.

Basically, author Bob Norman calls the whole
station racist.

Despite the nasty tone of the article, there
is some valid (no, I won't say constructive)
criticism of their abandonment of local talk.

I guess Mr. Norman doesn't like to stay up late
because he shortchanged the evening crew with
just one sentence, saying "to top off the day,
there's Republican propagandist Laura Ingraham
and a dose of Fox News." He neglected to mention
that the Fox program after Ingraham features liberal
Alan Colmes. (Or has he been cancelled, too?)

Ingraham got off easy. I'd call her a cackling,
snotty, apologist for the religious right. Savage
may be the most in-your-face talker but sometimes
he displays common sense and shares facts not heard
elsewhere.

ADDED: It just occurred to me that in that
respect, he reminds me of the late Jack Cole.

Big on invective, Ingraham is the most
nasty and offensive one on WFTL by a long shot.

For more about WFTL's abandonment of local talk, see
WFTL Kills Local Talk -- Again! in September Radio News.
(And if you need to buy something at Amazon.com,
please buy it via the links on my web site.
Thank you!)

73s from 954<P ID='signature'>______________
September 2005 - South Florida Radio News</P><P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by 954 on 09/22/05 06:29 PM.</FONT></P>
 
Re: Hatchet Job on WFTL and Especially Kelley Mitchell in New Times (Broward-PB Edition)

> New Times Broward-PB Edition did a hatchet job
> this week on WFTL and especially Kelley Mitchell.
>
> Basically, author Bob Norman calls the whole
> station racist.

WFTL has this coming -- not for the political tone of its talk, but for its zigzagging of the past two years. Local news/sports to local news/local talk to all second-tier right wing talk. During that time, how many changes has WJNO made? The Crystal organization ranks with the Paxson braintrust of the 90s for its sheer station-killing incompetence. It is not fit to program this station and should just sell out to Clear Channel right now.

The Kelley Mitchell race-baiting from the Astrodome is something I would identify as a positive, in a backhanded sort of way. It fits in with the overall tone of the station. Using street reportage as a way to reinforce the biases of your target audience may be the only way to justify a news effort by a non-incumbent talk radio station in the 21st century.

The only successfully launched local talker in the past 10 years in any market has been KPAM, Portland OR. The owner there is sort of like Bud Paxson but he has had the patience to stick with the format.

>
> I guess Mr. Norman doesn't like to stay up late
> because he shortchanged the evening crew with
> just one sentence, saying "to top off the day,
> there's Republican propagandist Laura Ingraham
> and a dose of Fox News." He neglected to mention
> that the Fox program after Ingraham features liberal
> Alan Colmes. (Or has he been cancelled, too?)

Most liberals would no more count Alan Colmes as one of their own as they would Zell Miller. Colmes is only on for an hour anyway.
>
> Ingraham got off easy. I'd call her a cackling,
> snotty, apologist for the religious right. Savage
> may be the most in-your-face talker but sometimes
> he displays common sense and shares facts not heard
> elsewhere.

I always thought Savage was the one rightwing talker who fit in South Florida --sort of a whiny uncle from the Bronx who would spout conspiracy theories at the dinner table.

> Big on invective, Ingraham is the most
> nasty and offensive one on WFTL by a long shot.

Ingraham is just snark -- think tank Gen-X snark. More proof of why no one of any political persuasion who went to an Ivy League school should do talk radio. Never mind that it attacks the populist premise of the medium, just look at the ones who've done it: Ingraham, Hugh Hewitt and Al Franken.
 
Snarky Laura Ingraham Sniggers on WFTL

> Ingraham is just snark -- think tank Gen-X snark.

I don't think so. I've never heard her once say
"What I tell you three times is true" although
it would fit in with her personality!

If you're not a Lewis Carroll fan and the
above text makes no sense, you should check
out this link:

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/CarSnar.html

All right, I looked up snark in Urban Dictionary:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=snark

Which is good, because it reminded me of a word
I couldn't think of before:

<font color=red>Laura Ingraham SNIGGERS annoyingly.</font>

Now, who'll be the first ignorant one
to call that sentence racist?

Can't wait!!! ;-)

73s from 954<P ID='signature'>______________
September 2005 - South Florida Radio News - Part 2</P>
 
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