Posted by
Arnie on Thursday, June 21, 2007 7:08:25 AM
Conclusion to the report is that talk radio is dominated almost exclusively by conservatives. Duh. Now why would that be? Is Rush Limbaugh controlling ALL of the stations around the country and preventing either of them from broadcasting a liberal talk host.? Does he threaten to pull his program if a liberal is provided air time? How can one guy be so powerful? Are listeners paid to listen to Rush? Are all those callers-in actually employees of Rush?
Let's see Air America tried, but could not make it. Trying again.
The left-wing liberal think tank "Think Progress" has released it's new 'scientific? study called "
The Structual Imbalance of Talk Radio" It's a whopping 40 pages long. It's the kind of stuff politicians get impressed by.
"Our conclusion is that the gap between conservative and progressive talk radio is the result of multiple structural problems in the U.S. regulatory system, particularly the complete breakdown of the public trustee concept of broadcast, the elimination of clear public interest requirements for broadcasting, and the relaxation of ownership rules including the requirement of local participation in management." Here.
In other words, the radio frequencies belong to the governement and they must be allotted out on a non-discrimatory balanced system so that ALL voices are heard equally. The radio stations do not own the airwaves, the governement does.
It's coming folks, we've enjoyed the ride, but it's about to end. Rush will be able to play a lot more golf with Neal Boortz in the Bahamas. And we the people get screwed.