Liberal Talk Show Ratings

[jmatthan]

Yesterday, as we heard on the Randi Rhodes Show, there were many misstatements made in the American political scene about the fact that no liberal talk shows were on Armed Forces Radio (the Ed Schultz case) because no liberal talk shows have 1 million listeners.

That was a blatant lie by the Republicans.

There are no documents, web sites or blogs that actually rate liberal talk shows.

Arbitron, the only rating system now in use, is not a suitable method of rating talk shows or even establishing listenership.

I have set up a new blog which is to analyse and rate liberal talk shows which are available online ONLY, using a method not in the least bit like Arbitron.

It is based on my assessment as a non-American, not resident in the US, of how good or bad a liberal talk show host does his job. Various parameters are taken into consideration which I shall explain as the blog develops and I analyse each talk show host that is rated. Ratings will be done weekly and presently I am covering 20 talk shows.

I would like all of you to visit my new blog and comment on it so as to help me come to a good enough system so as to rate liberal talk shows in a more scientific manner.

Your co-operation is requested. Any input will be carefully looked into and acted upon. Any cooperation offered will be considered. I hope many of you will join me on this journey.

The URL for the blog is

http://talkshowratings.blogspot.com

Present top rated show for the week ended 4th November 2005 as per my rating system is "The Mike Malloy Show".

[papau]

1. "Bipartisanship is like virginity & Once lost, it's never recovered."

UC Berkeley political science professor Bruce Cain has this colorful analogy: "Bipartisanship is like virginity & Once lost, it's never recovered." -

the GOP are making future Bipartisanship very unlikely.

[papau]

2. Which of your top 20 are on XM, which are Sirus, which are internet only?

ratings for the week ending 4th November 2005.

1. Mike Malloy *****
2. Thom Hartmann *****
3. Peter Werbe *****
4. Guy James *****
5. Laura Flanders *****
6. Ring of Fire (Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio) *****
7. Morning Sedition (Marc Maron, Mark Riley) ****
8. The Rachel Maddow Show ****
9. Mike Webb ***
10. The Randi Rhodes Show ***
11. The Stephanie Miller Show ***
12. Nate Clay ***
13. The Majority Report (Janeane Garofalo, Sam Seder) ****
14. The Young Turks (Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz and Jill Pike) **
15. Springer on the Radio (Jerry Springer) *
16. Revolution in the Air (Lizz Brown) ***
17. Radio Inside Scoop (Mark Levine) ****
18. Bernie Ward *****
19. Ray Taliferro ****
20. John Rothmann ***

[jmatthan]

3. I consider only Online Internet.

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