Obama: Limbaugh, Fox Helped Create Environment for Republicans Refusing to Work With Me

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7. We needed (need) to buy up local media

and be willing to operate these entities at a loss (which is what the GOP did for the past 30 years, considering it a "donation" to their political causes) and run our own syndicated programming on them 24/7.

We can't keep saying on one hand - "Well no one listens to AM radio" and then on the other hand bemoan "Look at the digital divide in many rural areas!" I.e., because of that "digital divide", much of the "news" available to those areas ultimately comes out of those hundreds of low power AM stations that liberals dismiss(ed)... because that is all those folks have outside of maybe dial-up internet (AOL & Earthlink are still alive and kicking), satellite TV, and/or some barely receivable TV (with the right antenna).

I have watched over the past 15 years or so how many small stations around the tri-state (PA, NJ, DE) area were bought up, and the original car talk/gardening/real estate/DIY-type programming was dropped in favor of ilk like Savage Weiner, Beck, Hannity, Levin, and the like.

I had spent the previous 20+ years listening to a variety of programming including the early RW talk just to get the view from the other side... But when I had had enough, I could usually switch that off and go to other programming. I am now pretty much left to streaming the non-political type of talk because it is no longer available from any station around the area.