Reagan got rid of it, will Barry bring it back?
Radio is last bastion for conservatives
By Adrian Vance -- Letters to the Editor
Posted: 02/05/2009 11:30:45 PM PST
High with having won the Presidential election top Democrats are now plotting ways to eliminate the last bastion of conservative discourse, talk radio.
If one of the leading hosts says listeners should call their elected representatives in Washington DC switchboards will collapse in minutes and stay that way for the day. Calls getting through will not be what electeds want to hear, FAXes and letters will come for days many including colorful, perhaps earthy, suggestions for the public servant.
The mis-labeled "Fairness Doctrine" required every "conservative hour" be followed by a "liberal hour" of content. No mention is made of the fact that liberals already have 90% of all printed and broadcast television programming and reporting.
Their anchors, reporters and commentators who weep on screen because "we have finally elected a black President," sob, blubber or tell of having "strange sensations coming up my left leg when he speaks," violate the First Commandment of Journalism, "Never become the story." And, they often mis-quote or lie about what a conservative has said on radio. Radio is the bottom rung of the entertainment ladder and dying in the 80's when Rush Limbaugh came along and revived it. Rush and his partner, an old radio pro, built the largest network in the history of radio, more than 700 AM radio stations broadcasting from noon to 3 p.m. EST. The show rang through the country with a clarion call. From 50 talk hosts the country, there grew 1200 Rush imitators doing local shows saying "The Emperor has no clothes." The elected class has not been the same since.
Now the Reid-Pelosi gang put out contracts on Rush and Sean. We hope they are successful because these shows are already on the Internet where they can be heard with far better fidelity than available on AM. With "podcasting" shows can be heard off-hours. Even better are the economics. If Rush's 20 million listeners paid $1 per month to hear him he would gross $120 million per year, far more than now. Sean would gross about $60 million and Michael Savage perhaps $50 million. Many conservative hosts would develop shows pulling enough subscribers to make them viable businesses. No flame burns brighter than that for the martyr.
Radio is last bastion for conservatives
By Adrian Vance -- Letters to the Editor
Posted: 02/05/2009 11:30:45 PM PST
High with having won the Presidential election top Democrats are now plotting ways to eliminate the last bastion of conservative discourse, talk radio.
If one of the leading hosts says listeners should call their elected representatives in Washington DC switchboards will collapse in minutes and stay that way for the day. Calls getting through will not be what electeds want to hear, FAXes and letters will come for days many including colorful, perhaps earthy, suggestions for the public servant.
The mis-labeled "Fairness Doctrine" required every "conservative hour" be followed by a "liberal hour" of content. No mention is made of the fact that liberals already have 90% of all printed and broadcast television programming and reporting.
Their anchors, reporters and commentators who weep on screen because "we have finally elected a black President," sob, blubber or tell of having "strange sensations coming up my left leg when he speaks," violate the First Commandment of Journalism, "Never become the story." And, they often mis-quote or lie about what a conservative has said on radio. Radio is the bottom rung of the entertainment ladder and dying in the 80's when Rush Limbaugh came along and revived it. Rush and his partner, an old radio pro, built the largest network in the history of radio, more than 700 AM radio stations broadcasting from noon to 3 p.m. EST. The show rang through the country with a clarion call. From 50 talk hosts the country, there grew 1200 Rush imitators doing local shows saying "The Emperor has no clothes." The elected class has not been the same since.
Now the Reid-Pelosi gang put out contracts on Rush and Sean. We hope they are successful because these shows are already on the Internet where they can be heard with far better fidelity than available on AM. With "podcasting" shows can be heard off-hours. Even better are the economics. If Rush's 20 million listeners paid $1 per month to hear him he would gross $120 million per year, far more than now. Sean would gross about $60 million and Michael Savage perhaps $50 million. Many conservative hosts would develop shows pulling enough subscribers to make them viable businesses. No flame burns brighter than that for the martyr.
