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L.A. Times "Column One" Story on John and Ken
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Ah, the old "Bash KFI and those EEE-vil John and Ken" story from the LA Times. Right on schedule too. They usually publish one about 3 times a year.
I don't usually get the print edition any more, was it printed in green (with envy)? Because KFI has over 1,000,000 listeners, way more than the Times has readers; the difference being that KFI's audience is measured with statistically valid measuring methods that have proven accuracy over time. The Times sends me free papers that I don't read, yet still counts me as a subscriber.
To be fair to the fishwrap though, this article was a bit more fair to John and Ken than their usual hit jobs, but you can tell the writer is no fan.
I don't usually get the print edition any more, was it printed in green (with envy)? Because KFI has over 1,000,000 listeners, way more than the Times has readers; the difference being that KFI's audience is measured with statistically valid measuring methods that have proven accuracy over time. The Times sends me free papers that I don't read, yet still counts me as a subscriber.
To be fair to the fishwrap though, this article was a bit more fair to John and Ken than their usual hit jobs, but you can tell the writer is no fan.
The Times really wants to keep misreporting the Jorge-Mario Cabrera phone number "scandal" as some sort of explosive catalysis for a boycott called for by a fringe coalition with an agenda J&K are vocal against. That is the third time in as many months the Times has went for that angle when J&K is the topic. The boycott isn't working, Times. Boycotts rarely ever work. The opposite effect actually happened. KFI rocketed to overtake KIIS in listenership for the first time in many moons.
If this is the coverage we'll expect in the new year within the pages of the LA Times, then it truly is indeed going to be a great day for radio.
Print media is deader than Disco.
If this is the coverage we'll expect in the new year within the pages of the LA Times, then it truly is indeed going to be a great day for radio.
Print media is deader than Disco.
The article was pretty fair actually...but boring. I didn't learn anything new or surprising, and it felt like it ended prematurely.
Actually, they explained what it means on the show, but the Times must not have listened that day.
I must have read a different article than most of you. The one that I read was balanced, meaning it showed both sides of the John and Ken equation; they're popular, they're influential, some people don't like them, they've pissed some people off. They're conservative on some issues, less so on others. All that and on page one no less! That's a major score in my book and one that any air personality in any market would love to have.
Maybe it's the balance that's upsetting so many of you, the fact that there are two sides and that both were acknowledged must be driving you guys nuts I guess.
Maybe it's the balance that's upsetting so many of you, the fact that there are two sides and that both were acknowledged must be driving you guys nuts I guess.
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