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freshwest

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38. I don't know, I see a lot of people taken in by these memes here. Who else tells people differently?
Thu Nov 22, 2012, 07:33 PM
Nov 2012

We are posting on this message board for free. Well, not really. We pay to post from our computers, internet charges and membership donation, if we made one which is not a profit on our part.

We also donate our time and effect, which does cost us, but we're going up against those who are paid by the second by these ______.

The notion that commerical speech is representative of free speech is an offense to me. Commerical speech is paid for, and the owner picks the tune that the speakers will play, but we give these marionettes on a string the same respect as someone who is more our equal, who really wants to change things. It gets no respect from me now.

I don't trust much 'media' as it is known, on or off line, because of the ownership media, and the owners censor anything that doesn't serve their agenda. It's so common, so well infused in society, the people they hire self-censor themselves to get the job and continue to do so in order to maintain employment.

You made a good analogy there, but rather dark thoughts, huh. I expect we can still go forward, each in our way to effect what is closest to us. Precincts, community meetings, etc.

Those who fell for entertainment news, were led there by years of entertainment to see themselves as being trendy, smart and now self-righteous. I have no innate disrespect for the variety of ideas put out daily, I don't demand anyone believe what I do, just as I refuse to believe what others claim I must.

If the entertainment industry owners confined itself to that, and not infected the news, and even then, if they'd been benign, that would have been one thing. Instead it's promoted hate to keep us at each other's throats. Our part in that is our willingness to others.

The standard broadcast airhead is just doing a job, like flipping burgers. No depth, just reading a script, extremely happy to be overpaid for doing it. But the more successful ones as Rush and Beck, I hold in a different category because they have interfered with the lives of persons they do not know.

It is the ulitmate in vanity, IMO, to judge or even discuss, what is going on inside people's bedrooms, inside a woman's body who they do not know, or demand obedience to religion or ideology or not. The way I really feel about them is not suitable for public reading.

As long as my NPR doesn't go away, that's all I want Ned_Devine Nov 2012 #1
My NPR went away several years ago. Scuba Nov 2012 #5
Why is the radio industry allowing one person to destroy them? yardwork Nov 2012 #2
I'm sure you know why (or have a strong suspicion)......... socialist_n_TN Nov 2012 #7
No. He has to make money pscot Nov 2012 #11
Eventually he might "retire to spend more time with his family"......... socialist_n_TN Nov 2012 #41
Contract termination provisions jberryhill Nov 2012 #8
relevant contracts amount to a suicide pact. aletier_v Nov 2012 #35
I'm goint to guess it's because they already paid him a chunk of his 40 million. They don't Squinch Nov 2012 #9
This time it won't. It will just xxqqqzme Nov 2012 #28
Yep. This one is different, and it's affecting the whole right wing radio industry, and scaring the Squinch Nov 2012 #43
Rush is important to the industry because richardmyers Nov 2012 #17
Hate is a great motivator. kelliekat44 Nov 2012 #20
Probably because they made Rush all or nothing. RichGirl Nov 2012 #22
Thanks for the post BlueToTheBone Nov 2012 #3
Flush twice Brother Buzz Nov 2012 #4
ohmygod that's PERFECT n/t Care Acutely Nov 2012 #16
Cumulus killed KGO reggaehead Nov 2012 #6
Cumulus and Dickey are wasting their spit by criticizing Limbaugh. no_hypocrisy Nov 2012 #10
It is the local stations that need to be gone after maxrandb Nov 2012 #12
It's not a bad idea to listen from time to time Mariana Nov 2012 #25
I NEVER need to listen to that asshole. Frank Cannon Nov 2012 #40
seems like they didn't learn their lesson ... zbdent Nov 2012 #13
Acceptal collateral damage. nt Comrade_McKenzie Nov 2012 #14
'...Limbaugh had cost the company a couple million in each of the two previous quarters...' freshwest Nov 2012 #15
What you supplied xxqqqzme Nov 2012 #29
Or else he hates us! freshwest Nov 2012 #39
which means that the couple mil he loses is chump change Doctor_J Nov 2012 #30
Rush's continued existence is not based on the free market or profit, but his ability to train freshwest Nov 2012 #34
bulls-eye Doctor_J Nov 2012 #37
I don't know, I see a lot of people taken in by these memes here. Who else tells people differently? freshwest Nov 2012 #38
Convenient Excuse For 20 Years Of Mismanagement... KharmaTrain Nov 2012 #18
+++1! patrice Nov 2012 #27
LOL!!! It's not the radio corporation CEOs to blame!!! tabasco Nov 2012 #19
The Rush giveth, and the Rush taketh away aletier_v Nov 2012 #21
Here is my spin on this. Wellstone ruled Nov 2012 #23
It's not the "Rush Flushers" SomethingFishy Nov 2012 #24
People are also tired of robot-DJs, pre-defined programming that conforms markets to itself, instead patrice Nov 2012 #26
good. i hate cumulus radio. NuttyFluffers Nov 2012 #31
this is ridiculous Doctor_J Nov 2012 #32
That's true and what I was trying to say in my post above...... socialist_n_TN Nov 2012 #42
Maybe they'll abandon propaganda and start playing music again Warpy Nov 2012 #33
maybe pigs will fly Doctor_J Nov 2012 #36
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