Raising Randi in Arizona

[CrankyYankee]

Re: Where PROGRESSIVE talk HAS NOT failed...and is HERE TO STAY...

> > Why the uproar over progressive talk here I just can't
> understand when we have hosts like Alan Colmes who has been
> going in radio and TV at least since 1990...
>
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After doing a quick check of this thread, I don't seem to find any poster
noting this article in the Saturdays' "Arizona Republic"....

http://www.azcentral.com/php-bin/clicktrack/print.php?referer=http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0618leftyradio18.html#<P ID="signature">______________
"Be seeing you..."</P>

 

[Tom_]

Re: IT'S CAPITALISM

> Maybe This Tom should start a campaign to convince people
> not to call NPR affiliates "NPR stations." My local NPR
> affiliate probably devotes more than 50 percent of its time
> to local shows and programming from PRI, American Public
> Media, the BBC, etc., but people insist on calling it "the
> NPR station." Meanwhile, This Tom's current campaign is
> getting to be a bore and a pain.


...well...OK...yet I'm not the only one on these forums to say this...my comments may be pedantic yet are "relatively" respectful considering some of the other folks who blast Air America...but what would you have to say if Ed Schultz and other progressive talkers in the same time slots as the Air America hosts eventurally win??? It's capitalism... Many liberals don't like Air America, including many liberal talk hosts and liberal talk programmers... I don't have any predictions, but I think Air America is going to have to deal with Big Ed now that Krane/Michaels are with him...

 

[Tom_]

Re: GREAT Analogy...

> > Stations that happen to have Air America hosts are
> > PROGRESSIVE talk stations...NOT Air America stations...
>
> This is of course true, but a technicality. People refer to
> certain stations as "Conservative talk radio" even though
> they carry a number of hours of computer, gardening,
> finance, and non-political talk, . For good or for ill, AAR
> has become shorthand for the format. Like Kleenex to facial
> tissue.

Jerry...GREAT ANALOGY! That's one of the best posts I've ever seen on the topic of Air America, seriously! It's not rude, critical, pedantic, or insulting!

 

[cabradio]

Bitter? Shheessh.<P ID="signature">______________
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[cabradio]

Re: Liberal Talk Failing Miserably

> There sure is a lot of posting on this board about a format
> that is failing miserably. Even its best stations have
> peaked already. And love those D.C. and L.A. ratings!
>
> If it wasn't for a few rich liberal fools constantly bailing
> this network out and paying to have it run in many markets,
> it wouldn't be around today.

What the hell kind of post is this? There is absolutely NO intelligent thought here. How can you base your opinion on the network when it has only been around for ONE year? In YOUR world does EVERY successful business score 1 million the first year out?

I'm not a fan of AAR, but really, you HAVE to wait and see...there is NO chrystal ball. But odds are it will survive in it's niche like Sports.<P ID="signature">______________
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[JerryStevens]

Re: GREAT Analogy...

> Jerry...GREAT ANALOGY! That's one of the best posts I've
> ever seen on the topic of Air America, seriously! It's not
> rude, critical, pedantic, or insulting!

Thanks. But when insulted without provocation, I am sometimes all of the above. (See "Just The Facts Ma'am" thread)

Vitriol is of course nothing new in political discussion but lately it seems as if people think it's the essence of political discussion.

I hate it.<P ID="signature">______________
Jerry

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts" - late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan</P>