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KharmaTrain

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22. The Challenge Is Staying Up With The Changes...
Wed Feb 13, 2013, 10:08 AM
Feb 2013

...the rushpublicans tend to fight the last election and have been flatfooted the past several election cycles. Hate radio and Faux noise had a profound impact during the late 90s...all Monica, all the time and then carrying water for Rove and Dubya. It was new and novel and the Democrats...and especially those of us on the left side of things...were slow to respond. Mike Malloy called it the "numbing" of the electorate...making political talk and TV so toxic that many people turned away. It wasn't until the rise of the "netroots" that our side began to find a voice and way to network and was used to very positive effect last November. The rushpublicans thought non-stop TV commercials and fear mongering would bring back that "old magic"...it failed miserably.

Careful about writing off demographics. Some of us from the 60s and 70s thought there was no way any intelligent and "hip" person could ever support a Nixon or Raygun. Thus one can never sit back...

Cheers...

Hopefully, more people are listening online and podcasting. In Chicago mucifer Feb 2013 #1
Why do we allow private profits to be taken from public airwaves? libtodeath Feb 2013 #2
Cause It Actually Did Some Good Once... KharmaTrain Feb 2013 #3
I've never listened to talk radio. LWolf Feb 2013 #4
Radio As A Companion... KharmaTrain Feb 2013 #6
Good points. LWolf Feb 2013 #8
The Marketplace...And It's Happening... KharmaTrain Feb 2013 #12
Steph miller is funny nadinbrzezinski Feb 2013 #13
I've heard that. LWolf Feb 2013 #15
Not really into talk radio, either, because it does seem like propaganda to me, too deutsey Feb 2013 #19
I have attended fundraisers LWolf Feb 2013 #21
I wonder if it's generational? lexx21 Feb 2013 #5
Very Much So... KharmaTrain Feb 2013 #7
I think Rush embodies the old white male demographic that is failing to elect CTyankee Feb 2013 #18
The Challenge Is Staying Up With The Changes... KharmaTrain Feb 2013 #22
Oh, yes. I remember well what happened to reproductive rights after Roe. We thought CTyankee Feb 2013 #23
I love progressive talk. Wish Democrats funded it more. Now I have Tune In app and online. Overseas Feb 2013 #9
Remember Alan Berg, KharmaTrain? NNN0LHI Feb 2013 #10
Sure Do... KharmaTrain Feb 2013 #11
Read between the lines. This was not devolution, it was suicide. Limpball's backers were Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #14
Thanks Kharma titaniumsalute Feb 2013 #16
Another radio head says, great post. mac56 Feb 2013 #17
Very Well Stated... KharmaTrain Feb 2013 #20
The Future is Podcasts. No Corporate Overlord. Little or No Advertising. Yavin4 Feb 2013 #24
Subscriptions Aren't Cutting It... KharmaTrain Feb 2013 #25
Consider the overhead jollyreaper2112 Feb 2013 #29
It Is A Tricky Balance... KharmaTrain Feb 2013 #32
TWIT is the one that impresses me jollyreaper2112 Feb 2013 #34
The profit is in one subscription to multiple podcasts, blogs, live streaming, etc. Yavin4 Feb 2013 #31
I Agree... KharmaTrain Feb 2013 #35
technically it's here jollyreaper2112 Feb 2013 #43
I don't want talk radio Courtesy Flush Feb 2013 #26
Yet another reason that I will never forgive Bill Clinton. Laelth Feb 2013 #27
Who even listens to terrestrial radio anymore? jollyreaper2112 Feb 2013 #28
Radio Destroyed It's "Farm System"... KharmaTrain Feb 2013 #30
exactly what I'm getting at jollyreaper2112 Feb 2013 #33
A Victim Of The Mallifcation Of America... KharmaTrain Feb 2013 #42
ugh jollyreaper2112 Feb 2013 #45
Thanks for the link TuxedoKat Feb 2013 #37
good for you jollyreaper2112 Feb 2013 #44
Thanks! TuxedoKat Feb 2013 #46
NYC no_hypocrisy Feb 2013 #36
WWRL... KharmaTrain Feb 2013 #38
It's not just a problem for the Liberal Talk format. Ganja Ninja Feb 2013 #39
Collateral Damage... KharmaTrain Feb 2013 #40
Air America really fucked things up. It's a damn shame. I don't watch TV but listen to talk radio Guy Whitey Corngood Feb 2013 #41
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