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Prepare for new FCC rules…

Don CT said:
So you admit that they will only be asked gotcha questions. While they tee up softballs to Trump.
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I don't think that you can "admit" something when it is expressed as an opinion and not fact ...
 
If you do it for one, you have to do it for all.

Let's see the Salem talk radio hosts (Mike Gallagher, Hugh Hewitt, et al) start booking liberal and progressive guests. That'll be a hoot.

Or even better, Democracy Now! giving time to MAGA Republicans. It will be pure comedy gold.

Pandora's Box won't just be opened, it is about to be unleashed.
 
Don CT said:
The reason democrats won’t go on Fox News is because they get ambushed.
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Look. I know this is semantics, but @desertaire expressed his opinion and then you treated it like some official statement by using the verbiage "so you admit".

It simply doesn't read right in the course of the discussion ... at least not to me.

I do not disagree with you. I believe that the reason we don't see Democrats trying to play the same game as the Republicans in terms of media exposure is that ... well, the conservative pundits don't play fair. They use the same playbook as their party's leader, which is to give their own POV and frame it as fact, and then denounce anyone who dares to say the actual facts.

Which kinda goes to the root of what I said when you said what you did. You took someone's POV and answered it as if it were fact, in an accusatory tone.

Come on. We gotta do better than that, or we become just like them.
 
K.M. Richards said:
Look. I know this is semantics, but @desertaire expressed his opinion and then you treated it like some official statement by using the verbiage "so you admit".

It simply doesn't read right in the course of the discussion ... at least not to me.

I do not disagree with you. I believe that the reason we don't see Democrats trying to play the same game as the Republicans in terms of media exposure is that ... well, the conservative pundits don't play fair. They use the same playbook as their party's leader, which is to give their own POV and frame it as fact, and then denounce anyone who dares to say the actual facts.

Which kinda goes to the root of what I said when you said what you did. You took someone's POV and answered it as if it were fact, in an accusatory tone.

Come on. We gotta do better than that, or we become just like them.
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And obtuse, semantic arguments like that you are using (which the media did) is a large part why Trump won in the first place. People hate that pseudointellectual stuff. Even disagreeing completely, posts like yours make people want to "summon" Trump to put an end to this kind of obtuseness. If a sixth grader did what you're doing, he'd get shoved in a locker.
 
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K.M. Richards said:
At one point, he answered one of my questions with "K.M., you have to remember that this is show business. What I do is just an act."

I always wondered, after his act went hyper-conservative, how much I could have gotten from him in exchange for that tape.
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Rush used to say this all the time. He always said he wanted his show to be upbeat and fun and to "illustrate the absurd by being absurd..." While I didn't agree with his hard-line politics, he balanced both an egomaniac and self-deprecating on the air almost every day and it was a decent listen.
 
Don CT said:
Was he giving an opinion or what he thinks is fact. He in no way said it was his opinion.
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While it may be difficult for you to see in a one-sentence comment, I find it hard to believe that his choice of words can be misinterpreted as a fact:
desertaire said:
The Democrats won't go on the conservative stations because they can't take the questioning.
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That verbiage is an opinion. Period.

RD is a discussion board. One has to presume most posts are opinions, especially one which has no factual references and was all of 14 words long.

Are you saying that we have to say "this is my opinion" every time we post, just so you won't perceive us as "thinking it is fact"? Okay, then: In my opinion, the sky is green. Feel free to rebut.
 
ron772 said:
Rush used to say this all the time. He always said he wanted his show to be upbeat and fun and to "illustrate the absurd by being absurd..." While I didn't agree with his hard-line politics, he balanced both an egomaniac and self-deprecating on the air almost every day and it was a decent listen.
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His show stopped being upbeat and fun though when he stopped doing the parody songs.
 
TheBigA said:
One might ask why these new guidelines wouldn't also apply to conservative talk radio.
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Guess what:
Andrew Jay Schwartzman, a longtime public interest lawyer, said the intent seemed to be to “trim the sails of certain talk shows” and induce a chilling effect; talk shows may be inclined to think twice before booking political candidates in election years altogether.

But he also said there could be an unintended consequence — by raising the question of whether conservative talk show hosts on radio, which falls under the same law, would have to provide equal time to political candidates, too.
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gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/...e_code=1.GlA.QJPZ.uQhJUE_E2EXM&smid=url-share
 
Don CT said:
The reason democrats won’t go on Fox News is because they get ambushed.
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But they know what to expect. Just as conservatives who visit “The View” have a pretty good idea of what awaits them. Such shows capitalize on the “my team” attitudes that drive sports broadcasts, and the producers of such shows know what the audience building hot points are.
 
davideduardo said:
But they know what to expect. Just as conservatives who visit “The View” have a pretty good idea of what awaits them. Such shows capitalize on the “my team” attitudes that drive sports broadcasts, and the producers of such shows know what the audience building hot points are.
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It’s all about feeding the base, not actual in-depth discussion.
 
Don CT said:
It’s all about feeding the base, not actual in-depth discussion.
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We live in a TikTok world of 30 second gratification.

Talk shows used to move at the pace of a golf tournament…. Now it’s the speed of basketball.
 
Don CT said:
They are more interested in cramming in more commercials than having long form discussions.
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I don’t see much, if any, difference in talk radio commercial loads today than those of the 70’s and 80’s.
 
davideduardo said:
But they know what to expect. Just as conservatives who visit “The View” have a pretty good idea of what awaits them. Such shows capitalize on the “my team” attitudes that drive sports broadcasts, and the producers of such shows know what the audience building hot points are.
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If you're equating Fox News with The View, then you're saying both should be subject to equal time rules.
 


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