It isn’t just politicians that are feeding their bases, it is the media outlets, as well. The village common — you know, that place where we all meet to discuss our problems, relying on the same set of facts — has shrunk to the size of a postage stamp, surrounded by the huge gated communities of like minds who never venture into the great beyond.Case in point
There is no such law, I am aware who would need to indict Showers but a little MSM media attention would go a long way…Tweet of the Day
So it upsets you when a poor person buys some Mountain Dew with their #EBT card, but not when a rich person buys your congressman?
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I read often on your sight how you believe the media is too far right. Now you claim the media is gerrymandered?
First, the Supreme Court ruled in 2006 in a 7-2 verdict that district lines can be redrawn to favor a political party as long as it doesn't negatively affect any racial or ethnic group. Yes republicans gerrymander, but so do democrats. Some of the districts in Texas and North Carolina are just ridiculous, but Massachusetts is just as bad. Republicans held the Governors office from 1991 to 2007 but during that same time frame only won 5 of 81 house of representative elections and typically only have 10% of the seats in the Massachusetts state house.
Second, people will watch what they want to watch. We tend to move towards things we are comfortable with. It used to be we had a very limited number of programs to watch. I remember when the only news on TV was the nightly news. 30 minutes from ABC, CBS, or NBC and an hour at 6 and 10 from the local station. Now we so much choice, so many stations, they have to find a market strong enough to stay in business.
Third, Gallup polling since 2001 has consistently shown that the American public feels that media is too liberal. On average 46% of those polled (actual number range from 44% to 48% over 13 polls) feel that the media is too liberal. 14.6% feel that the media is too conservative (ranges from 11% to 19%) and 35.9% feel that the balance is just about right (ranges from 33% to 40%). You feel the media is too conservative because your views are more liberal than the media you watch. You are the liberal version of the hardcore tea party members that you mock. And if they are at the heart of our political problems, so are you. You don't give on what you feel strongly about. Yet you want others to give up what they feel strongly about.
Reagan's opponents didn't give up when he won his second term, Bush II's opponents didn't give up when he won his second term. It's never been done that way, never will be. There will always be opposition and we should be glad there are people with differing views than us, (going to steal a line from Dennis Miller) "The last time I can remember an entire nation being on the same page, it was Germany in the late thirties and it didn't really turn out that funny."
Hello Brian, welcome back.
If you read the link you will realize why the writer says the media is gerrymandered and why I agree with him. We've had this discussion before about there being no liberal alternative to right wing Talking Radio Heads.
The Supreme Court also ruled that Corporations are people and overturned Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, that along with the gerrymandering sealed the deal. But here's the rub, the people are beginning to wake up and smell the coffee, realizing all of this was done to help the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class (working poor) gets the shaft.
Reagan nor Bush had to deal with a gop infused, media enabled, Citizens United, gerrymandered, TeaPublicans.
I read the article. He was focusing on TV for the most part. He noted how conservative the viewers of Fox News are and how liberal the viewers of MSNBC are. He's talking about how we tend to watch shows/listen to broadcasts/browse sites that match our views. He wasn't saying that the media is gerrymandered, but the viewer/listener is gerrymandered. That we all too often stay in our safe little bubbles.
As the Times article put it:
"More often than not, when we tune in to cable or fire up the Web, we are staring into the mirror, not looking out a window. If we did look out a window, we’d see government officials talking past and around one another as they all fall down a flight of stairs, perhaps a perfect reflection of the people they represent."
It's also not like there has not been attempts to launch liberal talk radio programs, but those programs were unable to draw in enough listeners to stay in business. NPR is currently the best free radio source of liberal programming. And there is liberal talk programming on Sirius/XM Radio. Not all markets will support all types of programming.
And that still doesn't change the fact that many more people think the media is too liberal than think it's too conservative.
What attempts to launch liberal radio talk shows have been launched in North Alabama?
I believe Dale offered you a weekend spot at one time.
"Find me 5 advertisers that will buy liberal talk and I will help you get on the air.
It will be on the weekend to start but, if you can show it is profitable it will grow.
That is how this business works."
WVNA 1590AM out of Florence (mainly conservative talk) carries Ed Schultz weekdays from 5pm to 8pm. Not sure about other stations. As I said, a market might not be able to support all formats.
It might worth while for somebody to look at emulating WAY-FM (christian pop/rock). Create a satellite station rebroadcasting another station.
You believe a lie. Dale tried to "trick" me into getting advertisers for HIS show.
WEUP AM broadcast Al Sharpton from 12-2 PM, other than WVNA it's all right wing talk all the time, unfair and unbalanced, distorting what we decide.
I don't think Dale needs to trick you to get advertisers for his show. It sounds like he is doing pretty good on his own on the advertiser front.
I can't find any history of a full time liberal talk radio station in Alabama. Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Louisiana and Missouri all also don't have any liberal talk radio stations. Mississippi has 2 AM stations that can be considered liberal talk. Georgia has 1 AM station in Atlanta. Texas has 2 AM stations. North Carolina has 2 AM stations. South Carolina has 1 AM station. Virginia has 1 AM station and 1 FM station. Florida has 7 AM stations. St. Louis, Memphis, Nashville, New Orleans, Houston, Austin all don't have a station broadcasting any liberal talk radio. St. Louis had 2 that switched formats away from liberal talk radio. Memphis had 1. New Orleans had 1. Austin had 1. Not sure about the rest. But it is clear that there is not much confidence in the strength of local liberal talk radio in the south. One one station broadcasting on FM and that station(WWWT 107.7 Manassas, VA) is a repeater station of WTOP out of Washington D.C.
Dale gave you an offer, if you did your part and he cheated you, you could have had some serious ammo against him. Or you could have become the voice of liberal talk radio in North Alabama.
The owners of our local radio stations aren't in business to lose money. They check to see what people want to listen to in the market. They see if a certain format is over or under saturated and whether or not the market might support a new format. And sometimes it is up to those that want a new format to speak up, write letters and make their voice heard. The fans of Jericho got it renewed for a 2nd season through a letter writing campaign (and sending a bunch of peanuts) to CBS.
It's kind of hard to listen to something/someone that isn't on the air.
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