Reply #445: Ad time

[Bluenorthwest]

Rhandi is a highly paid entertainer on a network that sells adtime to make the money they pay her. She is probably paid more than the entire staff of the Nation, which sells no ads.
AAR sells advertizing time for a living. Rhandi's job, and that of the others there, is to draw and hold and audience that will then buy the products advertized. I have heard Thom Hartmann tell the audience that they OWE it to the advertizers to buy from them, this he said on a for profit show, and while I love Thom, I think listening to the as is what I owe them. Thom Hartmann makes sooo much more money than I do. So much. He's rich. I'm not. I don't buy imported organic wine, from that Thom commercial that is at the same time a commercial for commercials on Thom's show. Too much marketing even with Thom is my point, so obviously money and profit is a major element of what they do- they sell things. Thom's the best of them and he is a former adman, a specialist in psychological marketing techniques. That is also part of what he is doing on the air. Selling things to you and me.

The other businesses you mention do not rise and fall by adtime sold and by the results seen from those ads. Rhandi is in a business and she makes big bank for that. Her job is not to elect anyone, or to prevent the election of anyone. Her job is to sell adtime. Shall we have no AAR because Rhandi wants to spit at the candidate SHE does not like, but huge parts of her former audience does like? Do you think she is winning minds and votes for Obama that way? I don't. I think she is costing AAR and Obama.
I too could not deal with the stress of her show and her baggage begining over a year back. If one does it, figure thousands did. Ears, ads, dollars.