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Time to Call Out America's Radio News Network

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smedge2006

"Interviews" with guest experts from the Heritage Foundation and the Washington Times.

Story selection seems to track Fox News Channel, even moreso than Fox News Radio, right down to the anti-Media Matters talking points without rebuttal.

Talk Radio Network tries to expand irs reach beyond right-wing talk radio -- but even when it does something else, it insists on sneaking right-wing ideology into its content -- almost as a form of evangelism. As in Phil Hendrie bashing liberals on progressive stations. As in "America's Radio News."

ARNN is just a transparent means to dodge ad agency blackballing of right wing yell radio by being right wing radio without the yelling. It's not WBBM, WINS, WTOP, KYW, KCBS or KNX, and its affiliates should stop pretending that it is.
 
Never mind their obvious right-wing bent. Just looking at their website is a huge turn off for any potential affialiate. If you go into their "affiliates" page the first thing you will see is the words "Making, Breaking and Driving the News From the Nation’s Capitol".

What the hell is the nation's "capitol". I always thought it was "capital".

If a network shooting for 24/7 live news status can't get this right, I guess they are not even smarter than a 5th grader. Why should any owner trust their station to this joke?

I'm sure many small and medium market stations would consider a 24/7 national news service as their primary format, but I doubt ARNN will make it very far. They are by no means a "safe buy environment" as they claim.
 
"Call out?" Really.

Let's see:

1) On the TV side, Fox News promoted the crap out of the fact that they were right wing/conservative and they beat the pants off CNN now.

2) In radio, there is NOT ONE "liberal' slant station in any major market that makes any impact or gets any ratings.

So, if you were doing to launch a news program for morning drive and then expand it to other dayparts, what "slant" (or not) would you take?

Way to go ARNN. Make some $$ for your company and your affiliates.
 
FLjack2 said:
On the TV side, Fox News promoted the crap out of the fact that they were right wing/conservative and they beat the pants off CNN now.
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There it is again.

This is probably the most repeated line in one form or another, to bolster right wing whatever: "FOX beats the left channel".

Fact is, the aggregate of all disenfranchised conservatives (not to mention many others who can't help but rubberneck) tune in FOX as if it's their own private "land of the misfits". Meanwhile, everybody else. a/k/a normal people, are dispersed across the rest of the media universe.

In reality, if there was just FOX and one normal news channel, that other channel would clean FOX's clock on a regular basis. It wouldn't even be close. That's because most people try to be objective and fair (the real kind) and don't want their news fed to them by a propaganda machine that only serves to reinforce a collective bias.
 
It is kind of boring and predictable to me. Just what I want to hear on the way to work, someone from the Heritage Foundation talking about taxes. You know what they are going to say because they said it 10 times before.
 
FLjack2 said:
"Call out?" Really.

Let's see:

1) On the TV side, Fox News promoted the crap out of the fact that they were right wing/conservative and they beat the pants off CNN now.
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Except that they promote themselves as "objective" and "without agenda." Why can't they be honest and admit what they're creating is conservative talk radio without the shouting and phone calls?

Journalism Without Agenda
... and "objective News only long-form programming"
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I listened and will NOT listen again. The production elements sound like 1975 and the leaning right wing agenda is more than obvious. Cheezy all the way.
 
smedge2006 said:
FLjack2 said:
"Call out?" Really.

Let's see:

1) On the TV side, Fox News promoted the crap out of the fact that they were right wing/conservative and they beat the pants off CNN now.
Click to expand...

Except that they promote themselves as "objective" and "without agenda." Why can't they be honest and admit what they're creating is conservative talk radio without the shouting and phone calls?

Journalism Without Agenda
... and "objective News only long-form programming"
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So what? Music stations claim they are "rock" and they don't exactly fit what I think is rock (or dance or anything else for that matter.) No big deal. It's the same thing, but with a speech format.
 
jas2525 said:
FLjack2 said:
On the TV side, Fox News promoted the crap out of the fact that they were right wing/conservative and they beat the pants off CNN now.
Click to expand...

There it is again.

This is probably the most repeated line in one form or another, to bolster right wing whatever: "FOX beats the left channel".

Fact is, the aggregate of all disenfranchised conservatives (not to mention many others who can't help but rubberneck) tune in FOX as if it's their own private "land of the misfits". Meanwhile, everybody else. a/k/a normal people, are dispersed across the rest of the media universe.

In reality, if there was just FOX and one normal news channel, that other channel would clean FOX's clock on a regular basis. It wouldn't even be close. That's because most people try to be objective and fair (the real kind) and don't want their news fed to them by a propaganda machine that only serves to reinforce a collective bias.
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But there ARE more than two. It's the real world. Fox could tell people the sky is green and some would believe it. Others not. This is not about politics, it's about a radio network. And if a conservative slant works, go for it.
 
FLjack2 said:
But there ARE more than two. It's the real world. Fox could tell people the sky is green and some would believe it. Others not. This is not about politics, it's about a radio network. And if a conservative slant works, go for it.
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PURPOSELY misinforming the public by promoting a predetermined bias is the job of political operatives, NOT a so-called NEWS outlet.
 
Radiofornia said:
Never mind their obvious right-wing bent. Just looking at their website is a huge turn off for any potential affialiate. If you go into their "affiliates" page the first thing you will see is the words "Making, Breaking and Driving the News From the Nation’s Capitol".

What the hell is the nation's "capitol". I always thought it was "capital".
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Be careful when throwing stones, buddy, in case it hits you in the head when it ricochets back.

Capitol - When you refer to a place which is the seat of state of national government.

-> The U.S. National Capitol is Washington DC. The capitol of Oregon is Salem.

Capital - When you refer to finance or some kind of importance.

-> Capital investment
-> Capital punishment
 
sdwulfdawg says that "Capitol...is a place which is the seat of state of national government." Actually it's a place which is the seat of state OR national government," not "state OF national government." Like the building where Congress connives. And they do break quite a bit of news from that capitol.

America's Radio Network runs from 8 AM to 8 PM CT Monday through Friday. It's carried on 183 stations. Some carry all twelve hours. Others carry only two or three hour blocks, usually around noon and afternoon drive, with talk shows between. It's companion program, "America's Morning News," is on from 5 to 8 AM CT on 135 stations.

They're no farther to the right than ABC, CBS and CNN are to the left.
 
They're no farther to the right than ABC, CBS and CNN are to the left.
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Anyone who tries to claim CBS radio news in 2011 has a left-wing tilt hasn't heard Harley Carnes.

Here is the verbatim more-or-less first sentence from the ABC Information newscast at 2 p.m. Eastern on Monday, September 19th:

"President Obama presents his deficit reduction plan, which congressional Republicans say proves he has no new ideas."

There's a sentence worthy of Olbermann, Maddow and Saul Alinsky, eh? :D
 
What's biased about that? President Obama did present his deficit reduction plan and congressional Republicans did say it proves he has no new ideas. Sounds pretty straight forward and unbiased to me.

What did Harley Carnes say? I'm not familiar with him.

Jake Tapper at ABC and Wolf Blitzer at CNN sometimes do some pretty good reporting. Is Harley Carnes straying from the party line at CBS?
 
What's biased about that? President Obama did present his deficit reduction plan and congressional Republicans did say it proves he has no new ideas. Sounds pretty straight forward and unbiased to me.
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Which is precisely the point. That line came from a radio newscast produced by ABC News, the organization you said tilts to the left.

Compare it with this line from an America's Radio News "anchor" coming out of an Obama soundbite on the bridge between Ohio and Kentucky.

"But clearly the president is just playing politics..."

Now what's the difference between the two? The ABC sentence ATTRIBUTED the statement... to "Congressional Republicans." The America's Radio News anchor just shot his mouth off. He expressed an OPINION. That's what talk radio does. Not a news network that runs around claiming to be "objective"... a word they use themselves and that affiliates use to describe them.

Now some info on ARNN anchors current and former. Here's the bio of Chris Salcedo from ARNN:

http://www.americasradionewsnetwork.com/Chris-Salcedo-Co-Anchoring-Americas-Radio-News

... which leaves out his affiliation with the Conservative Hispanic Society...
http://blogs.impre.com/latin_nation/tag/republicans/

... and former anchor Amy Holmes, identified BEFORE ARNN as a "conservative commentator"

http://www.lipstickalley.com/f154/amy-holmes-conservative-commentator-295644/
 
Being able to utter one sentence without a liberal slant doesn't prove the network isn't liberal. And ABC, CBS and CNN are full of liberal reporters and anchors.
 
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