Pretty bold prediction
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/04/glenn-becks-bold-speech-to-a-room-full-of-journalists-your-old-media-models-are-dying/
I think 2 years is closer. In 2012, very little political advertising went to radio. National ads are dead due to boycotts. Cumulus and Clear Channel are very vulnerable to changes in interest rates. Rush is not a spring chicken.
Probably by 2016, anyway. The Fairness Doctrine will return to radio, I’m certain of that. God forbid there be one form of mass media that is not dominated by liberals who don’t allow an opposing viewpoint.
Remember Air America? Great, wasn’t it. It was like MSNBC without the objectivity.
that’s bad news. Unless you buy your own station and run it yourself. I think that’s why there are a bunch of guys just airing over the internet.
Alex is sort of a hybrid,
We love sports ?
parrott
Liberals are lousy at talk radio, no support from the masses. So they might think they will have everything under their control if talk radio dies out.
They’ll have to shut down podcasts then. No one is really watching TV anymore, or it’s seriously splintered. Tight control of the internet will have to be next.
As proof of that, Arsenio Hall’s return to late night TV zoomed into first place the first week – in adults 18-49 with a 0.7 rating, 3% share.
The show has already dumped its executive producer.
Strange as it might seem, I like tuning into All Things Considered between 4-6 when in tooling around the backcountry. Sure, it’s supposed to be liberal but they cover a wide range of topics in more depth than almost any news source I can think of offhand. They also cover both sides of the political story (albeit from an Establishment slant).
You are not alone.
While I generally like Rush, the thing I don’t like is he has the strategy (he has said so directly) that he uses repetition to hammer his points home. He takes 5 minutes of material and stretches it to take up three hours. That results in a low amount of information. It’s a very ineffective use of my time.
For a while, I was using recording software that allowed recording the show and playing the audio back at 2x normal speed. Strip out the news, ads, and repetitive content and it took maybe 20 minutes to listen to the three hours. On John Batchelor, I often skipped entire hours (“Tonight I’m speaking with the author of a book about the use of fishing boats during the Crimean war to spy on China”)
If you like “All Things Considered”, then you should consider “As It Happens” on the Canadian equivalent – it is quite good and similar – here is a description
http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/program/as_it_happens
Hey, CC. I like the premise of “As It Happens” to shun “pack journalism”. I will give a listen. Thanks!
Art, you nailed Rush pretty good in your post, although I would go a little farther down the road by saying Rush juggles several ‘stories’ on a rotating basis. Rush deals with the topic of the day and keeps a rolling commentary going on diverse issues such as those pertaining to pro football. For instance PC opposition to Washington’s team name, the Redskins is a sub-topic, and so on and so forth.
As a frequent listener, while I work, these topics and subtopics are intertwined in his show. He frequently bounces from one to another. Then every once in a while he’ll say, “Look at me. This is important.”
As an aside, Geraldo interviewed a sports writer today who claimed to be gay. The guy was saying that he preferred people who feigned some sort of offense regarding the Redskins name would just get a little thicker skin. He thinks some gays also need thicker skins and should stop complaining about their ‘perceived’ biases against gays.
Pitting one group against another is a top priority of the Dialectic, which is designed to keep people quarreling amongst themselves so as to keep the real evil hidden. just sayin’
Phil Hendrie is out of the closet. He is now back to being a California liberal. As I wrote about previously, his being a Conservative was an act, probably forced on him by Roy Masters. At the same time he was playing Conservative to his national audience, he was doing a local show on a progressive talk station. When you go down his list of Pre-TRN characters, most of thm portray Conservtives and/or Republicans as very awful people.
The other night, he did a big long bit about a Conservative host who has been doing talk radio longer than Rush Limbaugh and the concept was to disclose that the Conservative talk show host is gay. It was a pretty vile piece of work and not at all clever or funny.
What’s Beck trying to sell? maybe a subscription to his show, still don’t know what to do with all the store-able food, seeds and gold he sold me along with a few bad books.
Tantaros – It will all be up to you and Monica Crowley. 😉
And Candy Crowley. What a fox!
And that hottie, Jedediah Bila.
smokin !
Parrott
I am going to start a travel company. Trips will be to places where insanity isn’t the rule of life. Talk radio, TV, Netflix, Hulu – all technology geared to turn a brain into jello. It’s time to travel and clear the mind. I will accept suggestions on destinations.
Antarctica
Internet Access may be a problem there.
It is when you fly over the artic as well – in fact, no airlines don’t offer internet wifi on those flights as far as I know.
I would suggest Belize (formerly British Honduras) except that it apparently turned John McAfee a bit wacky. As a former British possession, English is the lingua Franca, not Spanish or Portuguese. Domestic help is cheap, they have no military – but every few years expect your house may be destroyed by a hurricane.
If you’re worried about an EMP pulse destroying all electronics, Australia is not a bad choice. Lots of work in the mines digging up resources for China. In a pinch, you could eat cane toads. They’re everywhere.
In case you are considering Belize:
http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=18687
Stay safe http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/murder-capitals-of-the-world/
FWIT – “Belize now has more native speakers of Spanish than of English…” http://www.economist.com/node/21547848?zid=305&ah=417bd5664dc76da5d98af4f7a640fd8a
From you article: “English remains the lingua franca and the only official tongue”
That was my claim.
Yes… I was surprised that the murder capital of the world has an an overwhelming influx of people streaming over its border with Mexico.
Belize should put their military on the border to stop illegal immigration.
Oh wait, they have no military,
Barrow, Alaska – hundreds of miles and a tall mountain range protecting you from the nearest tree. Grass pollen only and then for only a few weeks per year. Heaven for anyone with allergies. I didn’t realize that I had had them so bad until I visited… when I bought an electronic air cleaner when I came home any my life was forever changed for the better.
The midnight sun reflecting off the polar ice cap and illuminating your beachfront hotel room ain’t too shabby either.
But the 6 months of darkness is kind of a bummer.
There is a lot of alcoholism, depression, and illegal drug abuse… and a very high suicide rate. Pretty night skies in winter I understand but I have never been there then.
The skies may be beautiful in winter, but the extreme low temps tend to curtail the time spent outdoors in the winter, right?
Humans are built for a daily sun cycle – darkness is the signal to cause the release of melatonin which makes you fall asleep.
Also, little or no sun will lead to Vitamin D deficiency which has a whole bunch of negative health effects.
No dispute there, but when is the last time you saw the sun in the northeast sky in March reflecting off an ocean frozen solid? Enjoy:
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2012/05/aurora-borealis-from-barrow-alaska.html
PS – How many people can tell the difference between the sun and the moon? Obviously I can not. 😉
Coober Pedy, Australia. The opal capital of the world is a dandy place to strike it rich while building your house.
Some Australian chicks are hot ! (not the poultry)
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