stevensonair said:
..... I would deeply doubt any conspiracy that rich liberals were buying relatively small radio stations in this economy just to shut up a conservative host.
There's plenty of rich liberals and they're not that stupid.
Let me offer a theory that supports/parallels what stevensonair says.
I am a long-time student of how church in America uses and does not use the airwaves.
There is a certain style of religious expression that finds that radio (and TV) produces results for them. There are other styles of religious expression that finds radio
does not produce results for them.
If we decided to have a discussion of religion... in the same style that we try to have a discussion about politics and broadcasting, we might be tempted to say that:
"God is a Baptist... because Baptist preachers are more successful and more insistent on using radio than are Presbyterian or Methodist or Episcopal preachers... thus proving that the Baptist version of God is correct, and all the others are wrong.
Because Limbaugh is the most successful broadcaster, we know for a fact that the politics as dispensed by Rush is the correct and truthful politics because it works and others don't.
If someone bought up all the religious stations and put liberal theology on all of them, would that make God a liberal? Nobody is going to spend money on that theory.
It would be ridiculous for business people to buy up stations and put liberal political talk on the air.... thinking that would make the nation liberal, proving that liberalism is the true and proper belief system.
It would be ridiculous for business people to buy up stations and put (more) conservative political talk on the air... thinking that would make the nation more conservative, proving that conservatism is the true and proper belief system.
