Comments on: “Talk Radio is running America!”

by: Ymarsakar

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:23:51 +0000

A lot of people are blogging about the Censorship bill. It after all, is designed specifically as a way for the government to control information outlets. The internet is included, you know. You know Internet Radio? The Senate recently passed a bill that raised the operating costs of Internet Radio beyond their ability to absorb. Too many of those and internet radio is dead, because they don’t have the resources of an Air America. Which is the strategy and the point. The Left has always liked to get rid of the competitors; why do you think they boot ROTC off campus? Can’t have different viewpoints from the status quo.

by: Thomas

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:59:23 +0000

tg,

When people talk about the “Liberal Bias” in news, we are usually referring to the more traditional media outlets, specifically TV and newspapers.

Of all the TV news out there, I can only think of ONE quasi-conservative station, and that’s FOXNEWS. Of all the hundreds of major newspapers out there, only a handful are conservative. However, you cut the cards, this is a pretty decisive bias.

Talk Radio, blogs and online news sources traditionally sit on the periphery when it comes to news.

Talk Radio usually only attract people of like minds and the frequency sits on the AM side of the dial. Most people I know don’t even turn on the AM dial.

Blogs… well, most people don’t give much a fig about what blogs say unless it’s done by high profile journalists who already have a forum to display their views anyway.

And online news is still dominated by the “newspapers” that have online editions. Once again, they lean toward that liberal bias we’re talking about.

Now, I don’t view the dissatisfaction with President Bush as some kind of illicit vast Left-wing conspiracy. There are many things people, including myself, are not satisfied with in this administration, Republican and Democrat.

But you’ve got to admit that 5 years of droning “He lied, people died!” and “He misled!” and things of this kind all over the TV and online newspapers helped to shape public opinion.

by: tg

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:31:37 +0000

Oh please! The hysterical claims of “Liberal Media Bias” are ridiculous. Sure journalists tend to be liberal, the field lends itself to that sort of thing. But the proliferation of non-liberal news sources allows people to find what they want when they want it. If you want to watch FOX change the channel to FOX. If you want conservative opinion read the NY Post, read the Nation, read Anne Coulter. If you want conservative talk radio the list is countless. America is positively dripping with conservative opinion from where I sit, and if anything the majority of people outside of New York and Massachusetts seem to soak up and regurgitate conservative drivel like a squoze spounge!

I’ll tell you what is biased. The fact that you view disatisfaction with Bush as a “Leftist” stance. By many objective measures Bush is a disaster as a president. Even my rightwing hardline Republican friend the other day admitted as much, although it greatly pained him to do so. Ridiculous!

by: vegas art guy

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:10:47 +0000

Thomas,
We need to stop thinking along the same lines. :p
Looks like I’m not the only one blogging about the un-fairness doctrine.

First rule of radio: Be interesting

For the most part liberal talk radio isn’t, therefore they don’t get ratings…