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Re: [IRCA] KOPT-1600 goes public
I listen to both networks all of the time, and I am largely in agreement
with the way Scott has distinguished between the two. Jim Renfrew, Holley
NY
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From: "Scott Fybush" <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] KOPT-1600 goes public
David Faulkner wrote:
I doubt that's much of a change, at least in political outlook. NPR is
the
chief reason Air America is superfluous and will probably never fly very
well.
73's
David
At the risk of going slightly OT, and with an open admission of bias (one
of my part-time employers is WXXI in Rochester, an NPR member station):
Anyone who would claim that NPR somehow makes Air America "superfluous,"
or vice versa, clearly hasn't spent much, if any, time listening to either
recently.
There's surprisingly little overlap (and lots of research to back this up)
between NPR listenership and commercial talk listenership of any stripe.
What Air America programs is advocacy talk - their hosts are openly
partisan (as well they should be).
Most of what NPR programs isn't even "talk radio" at all - it's news
programming, and for every study one side offers showing that it's biased
one way, there's another study showing that it's biased in the other
direction. There is research (and again, lots of it) to show that
listenership to NPR's news programming, which is growing steadily, cuts
across ideological lines.
As for the talk programs NPR offers - primarily Diane Rehm and "Talk of
the Nation" in middays - it bears almost no resemblance to commercial talk
radio, Air America or otherwise, and it tends to bend over so far
backwards to try to be politically neutral that it ends up annoying
political partisans on both sides. There are certainly plenty of
complaints on the lefty blogs about NPR being too far mainstream.
s
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