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How about talkradio for MORMAL people?

HHH said:
No, what is happening on the air is very similar to what is happening to the country at large. I don't want to get too philosophical but it seems to me that, a few years ago, people would search for some common ground and build from there. Today, too many people look for that disagreement point and then harp on it and play it up as a way to keep things apart.
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And we can thank the syndicated talkers for that.
 
Re: How about talkradio for NORMAL people?

Syndicated talkers aren't to blame. This isn't a new phenomenon. Do some reading on the history of media going back to the earliest days of this republic and you'll find that searching for common ground and building from there is the rare exception, not the rule. It's just the medium that's changed.
 
Re: How about talkradio for NORMAL people?

MrOtis said:
Syndicated talkers aren't to blame. This isn't a new phenomenon. Do some reading on the history of media going back to the earliest days of this republic and you'll find that searching for common ground and building from there is the rare exception, not the rule. It's just the medium that's changed.
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Of course. Its just that the 'medium change' was exponential.
 
Right. But you wrote that syndicated talkers are to blame for the divisions in the country. My point is that they're a symptom, not the disease.

HHH is mistaken: Two hundred years ago, newspapers stirred up divisions between people of differing political beliefs. Today it's bloggers, talk show hosts, and political pundits. In this country's history, we've never "search(ed) for common ground and built from there"; we've had three major civil wars (the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the War Between the States) and a number of minor ones (Shays' Rebellion, the House Tax Rebellion, the Whiskey Rebellion, and a couple of union strikes that required federal intervention come to mind) in between our disagreements over which external foe we should tackle next.

Let's not romanticize the past. The song is the same, only the instruments have changed.
 
Limbaugh did not last long as an NFL commentator and Savage, aka Weiner, didn't last long on MSNBC. They really can't hold their own when it comes to mainstream thought.
 
Limbaugh wasn't on the NFL talking politics. So not sure what you mean there. Savage is a nut and is better suited for a medium more willing to take chances with programming than TV.
 
When a "mormal" person walks into a bar, does everyone yell "Morm!"
 
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