Interesting that Ms King’s speech at the 8/28 revival ended with the singing of Lift Every Voice and Sing. I doubt few people who attended knew the words or the significance of that song. I’m thinking there is a lot of “what???” going on today. She also called for returning prayer to public schools. How far we have come in 50 years. Time to learn Mandarin Chinese.
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Fox Radio News didn’t even mention the event at the top of the hour. Must have been some orders from the owners in Saudi Arabia
Fox has dabbled in the inane (“Freedom Fries”) and the insane (“E.D. Hill’s ‘Terrorist Fist Bump Remark'”). But, when all is said and done, they are not too far to the right of MSM. They probably don’t want to look like Beck’s lapdog or, as you said, the Saudis didn’t want anything about the event being aired.
Art…are we able to post our own conversation starters? Or can we only reply?
This is a more traditional template intended for only the owner (or designated authors) to create a thread. For a while, I was using the “Twitter like” template that allows most people to start a thread.
One of its problems was that – combined with the screwy way I’m doing the logins – people were creating new threads (that show up immediately on the blog topic list) when all they intended to do was make a comment, and there is no way to “undo” that behind the scenes.
While I’m glad Fox News is there as a counter to ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN, those who read my rants know I have a deep distrust of FOX, also. While Rupert Murdoch has decided to legally become an American (because U.S. Law required him to be one to own TV stations), he is a flaming globalist.
While they can be entertaining, “Married with Children” and “The Simpsons” probably have done a lot to formulate the world’s opinions about what Americans are like.
Rupert Murdoch on why he had the NY Post endorse Barack Obama
Thanks for the info about the site.
Murdoch saw a need for a right-of-center outlet to attempt to balance the Moonbat Socialist Media. I, too, distrust Fox. Even Drudge falls short, in my opinion.
I have you to thank for turning my attention to John Batchelor. His site is very informative and he has a lot of media contacts. Alex Jones is too anti-Israel/chem trail for me. If you have any outlets that manage to cut through the dem/repub hyperbole, I’d be glad to check them out.
Batchelor is slow to put up his podcasts on weekends, so I didn’t hear until this weekend his segment on Friday about the Glenn Beck gathering. I just wish he hadn’t used Michael Vlahos as a conduit to express his own opinion. Vlahos was dripping in insinuations that Beck is the reincarnation of Adolph Hitler, is a xenophobic racist or the next Hughey Long, but doing it like a weasel, working around the edges without directly saying anything substantive.
For the record, I don’t think Glenn is a bad person or has evil motives. I think he is a weak person who is being manipulated by others, especially Pat Gray. They had an odd interchange the other day – Glenn “you know in relationships… I’m the woman, right?”… Glenn has said things like they’re so close friends they can finish each other’s sentences. Listen to their interaction for a while and it’s clear in a lot of ways Glenn has morphed into Pat’s puppet.
I’m low on suggestions. I listen very little to NPR. There are interesting and useful things there, but I don’t have the patience to wade through the 90% that is anti business, anti American propaganda. Big city AM Radio at night used to have interesting people (when it wasn’t baseball season).
One of the things often pointed out on the folks who were on Air America is their observation that most of the successful voices on talk radio never went to college or flunked out. (limbaugh, beck, hannity…) Each one is a different situation, but the pattern troubles me.
Savage is the other extreme – he has a PhD, but he isn’t drawing an audience with critical thinking skills. He realized early on and repeats it constantly that success in talk radio seems to depend on telling people what they want to hear. He knows when he starts talking about the Enlightenment and French philosophers his audience tunes out. So he feeds them red meat and plays the role of a person he is not. Then he tells you that’s what he is doing, and people still don’t get it.
Ben Stein would be interesting on radio – he knows a lot about a lot of things and is quick on his feet and seems to genuinely like people. But it would be a misuse of his talents and lock him into a schedule that would limit the other things he would want to be doing.
My single largest disappointment with this site was my inability to interest people in listening to new voices that might still be learning their craft in a smaller market. Mark Larson (the one in Florida) left radio and now does a podcast. Mandy Connell went from a thoughtful interesting show in Florida to a Kentucky “let’s talk about cheesecake recipes” morning show.
Ben Wattenburg on KGO in San Francisco is another gem. Problem is that he’s on during the worst possible time periods, and keeps getting bounced around.
He’s on right now (1-4 AM Monday Eastern Time) talking about ways to generate energy and the economic realities of the alternatives like nuclear power.
Consider an area for “Art Recommends” for both radio and podcast. I can’t imagine a day without “I’m John Batchelor, this is the John Batchelor Show” And to think I just stumbled on him reading the comments. Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History has also been hours of enjoyment. Thanks ever so much.
Two others who are both well past their prime are Bob Grant (on WABC on Saturday) and Les Kinsolving (WCBM). Les is the really old guy in the White House press room that asks the pointed question that press secretaries don’t expect and the younger people defer to so he can followup to flush out what the White House is hiding when they try to dodge his question – kind of like the male version of Helen Thomas without the pro-Palestinian agenda.
On the “up and coming” team I add Andrew Wilkow. He had been on WABC for a while, then a station in outstate New York, then went to Sirius/XM. He’s a bit like Mancow but without the booming heavy metal music. He’s the “young” guy in talk radio at only 38 years old.
Maybe I should create a “profile” function that allows people to put shows into categories to find people with similar tastes :) A radio social networking thingy…
I realized early on that telling people who I like not only didn’t work, people would go out of their way to avoid a “featured” program.
So, FOX and Drudge are fruit of the poisoned tree? Guess we should get rid of them. We can always get our news from, ABC, CBS, NBC, MS-NBC, CNN, NYT, LAT, AP, UPI, Reuters … Getting back to the old days … that’s the ticket.
I’ve not ventured an opinion about Drudge and perhaps you skipped past “I’m glad Fox is there as a counter to…”. Please don’t create straw man arguments.