tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post3030858851031443632..comments2024-03-29T05:00:41.967-05:00Comments on driftglass: Take Your Progs Off The Air Like You Just Don't Caredriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-39154370303670542042013-02-13T17:43:41.709-06:002013-02-13T17:43:41.709-06:00liberals don't listen to radio because its too...liberals don't listen to radio because its too slow--we have learned to read w/o moving our lips...<br /><br />in the car w elisten to music and can concentrate on driving.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-1060960843862503272013-02-12T19:31:36.556-06:002013-02-12T19:31:36.556-06:00I live in Painesville Ohio and we have a progressi...I live in Painesville Ohio and we have a progressive station that is just pathic . Dead air , interuptions of the broadcast for god knows what, the same consumer alert about peanutbutter for a whole year. It's painful and to the point where you suspect it may be sabotage. I call and tell them that they've been off the air , that they just played Stephanie Miller trying to lay down tracks for a commercial for 5 minutes. Any high school could do a better job and this is the liberal voice of the East Side of Cleveland! Tim Hoslernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-23394588962016175862013-02-12T18:04:24.133-06:002013-02-12T18:04:24.133-06:00Good gravy he looks like Ross Douthat. Disturbing...Good gravy he looks like Ross Douthat. Disturbing.brother yamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11680958644952778991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-37779820902717556192013-02-12T12:42:19.732-06:002013-02-12T12:42:19.732-06:00Also, too, when I want to have someone talk market...Also, too, when I want to have someone talk markets! finance! scandal! at me, <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/category/keiser-report-2/" rel="nofollow">I tune the computer dial to this guy's show.</a><br /><br />Max is a bit of a clown, deliberately so for theatrical effect, but he nails the crooked banking and political systems across the world. It was through him that I learned about non-money matters such as "meat glue" and "pink slime." Oogle those if you're in the mood to go veg.<br /><br />"The Keiser Report" also airs on Putin's English-language Russian TV channel, which I used to pay extra to the cable company to get back when I had a televison. Now the big-screen is where the Prius is, and you now what? I am getting along fine without them. I could buy a new set with spare change from the bank account, and I could get a new Mercedes for cash if I sold some of the shiny round things from the vault, but I don't need all that. A bicycle, a computer and some ingenuity saves me more than $1,000 a month that I used to be shelling out. Bukko Boomerangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424677168216647964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-18398719174624896912013-02-12T12:16:07.050-06:002013-02-12T12:16:07.050-06:00Here's another good article about why left-win...<a href="http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19962-who_killed_kpoj.html" rel="nofollow">Here's another good article about why left-wing talk is fading from the airwaves,</a> focused on the demise of that format in Portland, OR, a liberal city if there ever was one.<br /><br />Aside from the fact that WPOJ was owned by Clear Channel/Bain Capital, the problem was that the station wasn't attracting enough listeners. Maybe it's because liberals have better things to do than listen to people rant about politics. Perhaps they're listening to music, or learning about current events by READING instead of having stuff spoon-fed into their ears.<br /><br />Where I live, we used to be able to hear left-wing talk radio from a station in Seattle when we were in the car and the weather conditions were right.<i> (That was before my now-ex took off with the Prius and returned to San Francisco, another market where left-wing talk radio disappeared.)</i> Seattle's station has gone down, replaced by another sports talk format. (I've heard there are four such stations there.) A lot of what was on the Seattle station was personality-driven, Obama-worshipping chatter that did not interest me, but I liked Norman Goldman and loved Mike Malloy (angriest leftist on the airwaves, he.)<br /><br />Now when I want left-wing talk, I get it on my computer. Used to do the same during the four years I lived in Australia, too. I'm fortunate that I can pay for subscriptions to podcasts like Malloy's (or donate to bloggers who do 'casts.) I'm finding left-wing talk radio increasingly irrelevant, though. For sure I agree with what the talkers are saying, including you two, but I just don't care so much to sit around listening to people talk. I get more complexity of information from online newspapers, blogs and even old-skool books.<br /><br />Plus, radio talk is mostly about politics, and I find that to be somewhat of a diversion thrown out by the Inverted Totalitarian System. Not that there's no difference between the two sides of the Money Party -- I agree with you and BG that both sides are NOT the same. But I'd rather read about financial and environmental stuff online, and expand my brain with history books, than have someone's voice rattling on in the background. The quality of the information is deeper via my eyes than through my ears.Bukko Boomerangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424677168216647964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-89998643852785217722013-02-12T12:05:02.765-06:002013-02-12T12:05:02.765-06:00I guess it's a question of where one lives. I...I guess it's a question of where one lives. In California, we've got the Pacifica radio stations (esp. KPFA in Berkeley and KPFK in LA) and some excellent left-end-of-the-dial stuff, including my favorite college radio station, KALX in Berkeley (kalx.berkeley.edu).DocAmazingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-68794187115982258132013-02-11T17:59:43.331-06:002013-02-11T17:59:43.331-06:00Drifty, here's a pretty good article on this s...Drifty, here's a pretty good article on this subject.<br /><br />http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14355-an-insiders-view-of-the-progressive-talk-radio-devolutionCapt. 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