Just a quick little rant about the insipid bumpers that bracket the endless peddlering that constitutes much of “conservative” talk radio:
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‘I would just set out my point of view.’ — eric
How straightforward. How 19th century. And no, I don’t mean that pejoratively.
Having given up TeeVee at age 12, I missed a couple of generations of media weaponization.
In rare cases when I see the big screen in public or at friends’ houses, I notice the rapid-fire, 2-second edits intended to bludgeon the viewer into submission, or hypnosis. If I were epileptic, I’d probably spaz out from the blinding flashes. Instead, I just avert my eyes to an unpleasant assault.
As the saying goes, I have a face for radio and voice for subtitles. š
Forgive my ignorance, but is it just a tuneless song that plays for a minute or more? If that’s what it is, that means your “local” radio station doesn’t have anything to put in there. In the days before the broadcast band was owned by national conglomerates there’d be a local news and weather break in that space. And probably a few local ad breaks too.
Oh how the mighty have fallen!
Video may have killed the radio star, but Steve Jobs and Adam Curry killed talk radio. I spent a good part of my weekend road trip listening to Rogan give Trump a three hour tongue bath. Rush Limbaugh’s show was scheduled from noon to 15:00 eastern, but there’s no way there was 3 hours worth of content produced. It was full of ad breaks, local news breaks, live reads, teasers and the occasional dittohead call. At most I’d say he produced an hour of actual content.
Joe Rogan could probably have replaced Larry King, but why? What he’s doing is so much more useful. And because his distribution is based on a cluster of web servers and peering agreements, his overhead is next to nothing. Because of that he can put much more time into content instead of ads.
“Conservative” talk radio aka “Zionist” radio… I swear to God, all they talk about any more is Israel.
Talk radio serves only one purpose = to sell ads.
The hosts drone on about one issue after another, never offering solutions but to vote harder or send money to someone.
If they were legit, they would inform people on how to buck the system. How to separate from statist dependence. How to utilize the alternate economy. How to become independent.
But independent people don’t spend all day listening to talk radio for their daily does of fear.
Beahahaha, I can see this really got to you, Eric!
This little rant was particularly mocking and cynical in tone. I will bid you turn off the talk radio, put on some metal or punk, have some drinks and enjoy your Halloween!
Thanks, BaDnOn!
Hope some of you enjoyed it! I am at my limit with these shyster clowns, who are the epitome of what Bill Hicks was talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBRpW5sEvJk
Exquisite video, Eric.
One thing I’m happy to say is that I could never see you (or me, or most of those who follow you here) ever being among their shilling ranks.
Personally, I don’t mind or blame a person one bit if they are famous and want to help a company sell their thingies in exchange for some dalla bills..
Telling them to shut up, and dismissing anything they might have to say because they sold some junk on TV? -As if I would regard their words any more insightful if they had not done so, and instead just stuck to acting in movies!-
That being said, they should probably do some research on the companies they are whoring themselves out to, you know, to make sure they’re not evil. Like the Pfizer ads with the footballer multi-millionaire. What did they have on him to compel him to whoredom?
If I didn’t have a face only a drunk, sight impaired mother could love, I’d cash in on it too.
I’m pretty sure he pays stations to play his show, much like an infomercial. Glenn Beck has his own little mail-order empire. He learned how to run it from Alex Jones. Jones learned it from Fox News.
Fox News got started after the Cable TV act of 1992. The only way cable companies could raise rates was to add channels. The content wasn’t defined of course since that would be a violation of free speech. Pretty soon cable companies clogged up their spectrum with infomercial channels, photo-classified channels, duplicate low-rent versions of staples like the Weather Channel, Preview guides, etc. Into that environment came Rupert Murdock. He hatched a scheme to get nationwide coverage in a few months by not only supplying all the equipment necessary to add the channel, but basically renting channel space.
These days the broadcasters are withering on the vine. They still have some providence in some towns but not in rural areas that cannot get enough ad revenue to carry a staff. So they go automated and take in whatever money they can get.
After Rush died, I pretty much quit listening to talk radio. Can’t stand Mark Levin or Ben Shapiro. Bongino and Savage have that annoying northeastern accent that I can only handle in small doses.
On the way to/from work I listen to audiobooks. During the day I listen to Judge Napolitano’s Judging Freedom; historian’s Brion Mclanahan and Tom Woods; Ron Paul’s Liberty Report; and Daniel Davis’ Deep Dive.
‘Bongino and Savage have that annoying northeastern accent that I can only handle in small doses.’ — Mike
Could be worse, my friend. Talkin’ about female broadcast personalities with those piercing, speeded-up, nasal chipmunk voices that make me want to either punch my fist through the sheetrock or slash my own throat.
This is my personal definition of hell — having to listen to that high-pitched, abrasive screeching for all of eternity.
A lady from Alabama works behind the counter of our rural western post office. Her honey drawl just soothes mah soul.
Our local AM changed formats so (thankfully) no more Hugh Hewitt in the mornings. The next available station is 70 miles away over the hills but it does come in here relatively clear. Morning agriculture show that actually has useful information for everyone.
Huwett constantly shilling for something to sell and charities plus a fan of McConnell, other RINOs, and a total bootlicker for Israel. DONE.
Iām back to reading my info rather than a constant stream of commercials occasionally interrupted by a program host. Red Eye Radio is about the last tolerable show for me.
Is it ‘Agri-Talk’? That, “Morning agriculture show that actually has useful information for everyone.”?
I catch it on the AM radio dial sometimes in the morning & sometimes again around 2 P.M.. They only seem to shill on obviously commercials after the show. It’s been very surprising, they talk about Free Markets, Gold, and of course agriculture.
It’s online, too. It seems.
https://www.agweb.com/agritalk