Re: [IRCA] new bill may impact media

["Bob Young" <youngbob53@xxxxxxx>]

There are two political commentators that I regularly listen (ed) to and 
both of them do it with humor, Al Franken and Lionel, it seems Al is gone 
and my local Air America station is now SS so that leaves me with Lionel at 
night on WWKB or WOR.
I started listening to political talk radio when my last AM oldies station 
which was half way decent, True Oldies became another blowhard political 
talk show of which I was already bombarded with around here. FM except for 
jazz, blues, old country etc. on NPR and PRI had long ago put me to sleep 
also. Whether the fairness doctrine would work or completely ruin radio is 
of course a matter of conjecture but it would certainly be nice to balance 
all the rightwing blowhards that are constatly spewing all of their hot air 
around here and remember this is the People's Republic of Ma. here. I can't 
imagine what Iowa or Utah sounds like, anyone?
I'd like to see pillpop (haha!) and Al Franken do a joint show, now that 
would be fairness, or how about Michael Savage (who eats raw meat for 
breakfast) and Randi Rhodes, that would be a good one. Steven Colbert and 
Bill "I'm a war veteran" O'reilly just did appearances on each other's 
shows.
A lot of people here may disagree with me but I think that NPR and PRI are a 
lot more balanced than anything you'll hear just about any place else on 
radio.

Bob Young
Analogville, People's Repuplic of Ma.

>From: Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of 
>America<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of 
>America<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [IRCA] new bill may impact media
>Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 04:39:14 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>--- "W. Curt Deegan" <WWWR@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Broadcasters will quickly see the financial burden of carrying
> > unpopular, unprofitable programming to satisfy the banal concept of
> > fairness and will stop carrying any political opinion at all, rather
> > than be forced to carry programming that drives away the
> > listeners.  A nice, bland, non-controversial content which no one
> > will complain about.
> >
>
>*** While I certainly don't support the proposal, I would welcome an
>end to political opinion programs, whether they make a profit for the
>station ( Rush, Hannity et al ) or not ( AA ).
>
>I have never understood why people want to listen to the rantings of
>what are essentially self-appointed experts who are short on any actual
>relevant experience or knowledge but long on bombast and vitriol. It's
>all pure partisanship and therefore worthless - from both sides.
>
>But the music on both AM & FM has been made into a nice, bland mix that
>supposedly no one will complain about, so maybe if it went the rest of
>the way maybe then someone would do something creative with AM program
>content ? Nah !
>
>Russ Edmunds
>Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
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