Why is anyone surprised by this? I don't actually think it had to do with the fact Obama is a Democrat. It has to do with the fact WHAM radio has canceled news for profits. It started long before Bill Lowe was axed (news is non-essential and Lowe becomes fodder for the cheapening of the airwaves in today's big $$$ corporate radio world) when WHAM threw Fox News Radio on. After all, for cheapo cash payments for a cheapo low end news product, why do anything more? They could have had USA Radio for even less, but Fox News is a happy companion for the conservative talk radio audience they court.
Heck, in a few years, voice synthesizers will be good enough; they could just have a machine read the news.
Is it shameful? Of course. Do I care? Not really. I have long abandoned local Rochester radio for XM and get my local news the same place the commercial radio stations do - by reading the newspaper they routinely steal from. Corporate radio begets the rush to the bottom they cultivate with low end crud flung on the dial in between commercials.
Will the last listener turn out the lights and turn off the transmitter?
Heck, in a few years, voice synthesizers will be good enough; they could just have a machine read the news.
Is it shameful? Of course. Do I care? Not really. I have long abandoned local Rochester radio for XM and get my local news the same place the commercial radio stations do - by reading the newspaper they routinely steal from. Corporate radio begets the rush to the bottom they cultivate with low end crud flung on the dial in between commercials.
Will the last listener turn out the lights and turn off the transmitter?