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certainot

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Fri Jan 31, 2020, 01:41 AM Jan 2020

GOP senators need to know of impending effort to digitize, expose RW radio [View all]

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Artificial intelligence guarantees the 30 year Age of Talk Radio is over and this corrupt version of the GOP is done. The dark money and voter suppression and Russian trolling won’t save them.

If you call Republican senators tell them their talk radio advantage will soon end thanks to artificial intelligence, it’s unavoidable, and they can’t count on those stations to bail them out for acquitting Trump.

Democratic senators need to communicate to Republican senators they are facing a political disaster that will be compounded for those who vote to acquit.

Someone alerted me of an organization being formed to digitize talk radio on a large scale so it can be studied and finally be factored into politics and media. It was encouraging to find out about what can be done with available text analysis tools used for detecting and counting repetition, for instance. Hopefully there will be some effort to show how the Russians have been using talk radio (since at least 2008) and how it has been paralleling Russian social media trolling.

Whatever they do in terms of politics, however that ends up, artificial intelligence will force the advertising industry to destroy the Republican talk radio monopoly:

1) ---Talk radio can now be quickly transcribed and the text analyzed for patterns on large scale without major resources.
2) ---However that information is used, it means at the least that what Republican talk radio stations are saying all day can be associated with the advertisers who are sponsoring it. Like StopRush x 100.
3) ---In order to protect their clients the radio advertising industry will have to begin asking them if they really want to fund global warming denial, racism, sexism, excuses for Trump, and Russian propaganda.
4) ---The talk radio messaging monopoly will be destroyed by market demand. It’s already in economic trouble.
Republicans will lose the only unique advantage they have.
5) ---Republican senators know how important their invisible talk radio advantage is. They got the message when Trump paraded Limbaugh on the golf course the day after the Mueller Report came out and then released a photo of them having lunch the weekend before the Christmas break on the eve of the senate trial. They aren’t afraid of Trump, they’re afraid of the dittoheads.

Without 1500 radio stations speaking with one voice excusing their vote to deny witnesses and evidence and a fair trial, those senators will be seen as unAmerican cowards by a lot more people.

And unless Dr Fiona Hill is a fool they will also be exposed as Putin tools.

Americans need to tell Republican senators their political futures are over if they acquit.

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