Patroklos
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You might want to take a look at the democraphics of the Springer audience...
The Fairness Doctrine
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You might want to take a look at the democraphics of the Springer audience...
Oerdin
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That may be your agenda but it's not mine. I'm more concerned with one side so completely dominating a media (like radio) that people with other view points are excluded from getting any access to a publicly owned resource. Since the resource (that is the number of stations in any given city) is very limited and because the media is so vital to a healthy democracy, we really do have to make sure all of the public gets access to this publicly owned resource.
Media consolidation is also a major problem because many markets now have one company owning 3/4ths of the stations as well as many TV stations as well. That just isn't a competitive market for listeners/viewers nor for advertisers. Worse companies like Clear Channel (one of the largest hyper partisan right wing networks) loves to play dirty tricks to get around the law using holding companies or buying stations just across the border in Mexico in order to get around the laws against one company completely controlling a market. Where I live in San Diego has done this with a great many stations plus supposedly independent stations just happen to have the same board of directors and broadcast in lock step with Clear Channel's programming? Sorry but those are obviously dirty tricks to get around the law and no legitimate business practices.
Patroklos
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As has already been demonstrated what you describe is not the case. Several buinsess ventures designed to cater to liberal radio audiences have been tried (included Rush's very own sydicator) and they failed. There is no secret cable of liberals being denied radio access, the audience simply doesn't exist.
MobBoss
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No......no they dont. They typically vote for the hand out....not the hand up.
Murky
Deity
Most Liberals just listen to National Public Radio. They have moved on from propaganda focused radio shows. Why would anyone would want to hear some loud mouth radio host talking nonsensical about news items when you can get news from unbiased sources instead? Also, NPR is listener supported so you don't hear all those scam commercials that target the poorly educated.
Oerdin
Deity
I have to admit NPR is my default radio station in the car and I've been a member of my local NPR station for 10 years now. I even donated an old car to them a few years back. It's one of the least biased and most informative news sources on the radio today. I don't like how they redid their website though. You used to be able to hear literally EVERY program they ran on the air at their website but now they just have a live feed and maybe six audio articles per day. They just gutted the site's content due to lack of money and that sucks.
You should have seen all the Obama and Nixon signs in the white trash yards.
Oerdin
Deity
It's extremely hard to get a new network off the ground that's the reason it rarely happens and most of the major networks are the same networks which existed 50, 60, or even 70 years ago. If you don't have enough stations then you can't get advertising but you can't get advertising unless you have enough stations so only a really, really wealthy person/group can successfully break into such a market. Air America was under capitalized and never had many stations so they couldn't get the advertising even though they did very well in the markets where they had a station. That's just the truth.
The fact that they had large audiences in the markets they played in shows people are interested in hearing different views where they are offered but with virtually every station in the country already locked in with existing networks in is almost a mission impossible to enough stations in your network to attract the big advertising dollars needed to sustain a healthy network. I'd honestly say your analysis missed the forest for the trees because the market has been demonstrated to be there.
useless
Social Justice Rogue
Or all those racist ones against him comparing him to a monkey
Oerdin
Deity
In general lower income whites tend to vote more Republican then not while lower income nonwhites tend to vote Democratic. That's just a trend but a one which has held out for around 40 years or so.
MobBoss
Off-Topic Overlord
I beg to differ, and thats hardly been my experience. Do you have anything solid to back that up?
I am confident my children wont curse me for not voting for socialist health care, but you are free to dream what you will.
Oh, they will. Once they realize you destroyed their shot at prosperity.
Murky
Deity
ParadigmShifter
Random Nonsense Generator
Probably because they know where the hand is going to go up, and it scares them.
Here's your best shot at prosperity.
A bunch of sharecroppers and wage serfs living under feudal landlords don't have much shot at prosperity.
