cacrobert said:
Wow. Played the political card, the tolerance card and the race card in one sentence. And all because someone had the gall to question something that looked fishy. Amazing. I guess tolerance is a one-way street with some.
This venture is already a failure, and not due to the irony of its creator desiring capital so that he can provide airtime to people denouncing capitalism.
It fails because talk radio, regardless of political stripe, must be thoughtful and inclusive to succeed, and making the assumption quoted above is neither inclusive, nor thoughtful, especially when one considers that as this is a print medium, no one could possibly know that a person with a WASP-y name like Robert H. McDonald Jr. was a "non white minority". (BTW, I don't think "gay" or "woman" are officially classified as minorities, so is there any other kind of minority other than the non-White kind? Just wonderin'.)
It fails because its creator puts up a website with errors in it, which speaks to carelessness. A professional look is of the utmost importance when soliciting funding - why would I invest in someone who just slapped together a website that advertised a telephone number that didn't work, and still has typographical errors after two weeks when it would have been so easy to run the text through a spell checker before posting? (Hint: Microsoft Word would identify those.)
It fails because one who claims as a mission to "counter the hate and division that has infected our society" employs the very tactics he denounces.
It fails because its own advertising points to activism radio, and as OhioMediaWatch has astutely observed, "'activism talk radio' rarely garners any listeners".
This venture fails because to succeed, it will have to attract first the funding, and then the ears, of conservatives and of Whites. And it would be so much better if the investors were wealthy, too. Given your performance here, I'm not convinced you could pull that off, Mr. McDonald.
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