John and Ken (Los Angeles, Kennedy: contractors, wage, living)

[TheOldBear]

Originally Posted by LArenter

SpongeBob isn't real?

John and Ken can be annoying, but they also aren't afraid to confront the unions and politician who are wasting our tax dollars. Personally, I listen to Bill Handel in the morning.. he's a pretty funny man.

Always amused by the outrage brought on by anyone in media who speaks out of the mainstream.


I mean, on the one hand (progressively speaking) you've got your CBS/Viacom, your Universal/NBC CNBCMSNBC and their multilingual Comcast cable empire, your Disney/ABC global empire, your Turner/CNN global empire and all they begat. This would be the mainstream electronic media, always has been.


Then, on the other hand, you've got your Fox, noisy and in your face, but, compared to everyone else, small beer, bandwidth-wise.


You also have your AM radio band, dominated these days by what is called conservative talk radio, middle aged white guys like Beck, Hannity, Savage, and Limbaugh. And the likes of Ken and Bob who, shall we say, aren't exactly pandering to the JPL coffee break crowd. What they are going after, after all, are all of those middle class white people who are stuck on the freeway, driving home to the suburbs after having spent another work day grinding out a living. Horrors!!


When you think of it, can it be much worse than the millions who sit home all day and watch Whoopi and Oprah, (and now Rosie, again), put their spin on things?

[Moriarti]

Originally Posted by TheOldBear

Always amused by the outrage brought on by anyone in media who speaks out of the mainstream.


I mean, on the one hand (progressively speaking) you've got your CBS/Viacom, your Universal/NBC CNBCMSNBC and their multilingual Comcast cable empire, your Disney/ABC global empire, your Turner/CNN global empire and all they begat. This would be the mainstream electronic media, always has been.


Then, on the other hand, you've got your Fox, noisy and in your face, but, compared to everyone else, small beer, bandwidth-wise.


You also have your AM radio band, dominated these days by what is called conservative talk radio, middle aged white guys like Beck, Hannity, Savage, and Limbaugh. And the likes of Ken and Bob who, shall we say, aren't exactly pandering to the JPL coffee break crowd. What they are going after, after all, are all of those middle class white people who are stuck on the freeway, driving home to the suburbs after having spent another work day grinding out a living. Horrors!!


When you think of it, can it be much worse than the millions who sit home all day and watch Whoopi and Oprah, (and now Rosie, again), put their spin on things?

By no stretch of the imagination could CBS, CNN, ABC and NBC be called progressive.

If you want to be informed you're better off staying away from cable news and talk radio altogether. The most misinformed people I know get all their news from cable and talk radio.

[wehotex]

Originally Posted by Gurbie

If those two KFI loudmouths ever find out about an illegal alien, who belongs to a public employees' union, AND who is a child molester- do you think their heads would explode?

I love those guys. They keep us aware of what's going on in our city and region.

[wehotex]

Originally Posted by PittNewbie

Listen to NPR and get an education. Stop wasting your time getting brain washed.

There's nothing wrong with listening to both.

[TheOldBear]

Originally Posted by Moriarti

By no stretch of the imagination could CBS, CNN, ABC and NBC be called progressive.

If you want to be informed you're better off staying away from cable news and talk radio altogether. The most misinformed people I know get all their news from cable and talk radio.

First, there is no way that I personally would characterize the mainstream electronic media as progressive . . . however, I do detect a strong liberal bias as well as a dismissive attitude of most living in "the fly over states" from all of those reporters reporting from New York, Washington, and Los Angeles. This has been the case since the Cronkite, Huntley-Brinkley, Macneil-Lehrer, Chancellor era ended and news readers were put in place to appeal to younger viewers. Thus, my tongue in cheek description of the networks and their talent as “progressive”, a label embraced by the likes of Cooper, Couric, Cuomo and Curry as well as Williams and Lauer as they all work hard to appear unbiased but still hip to what's up. So to speak.


Second, I turn on the radio for the same reason I did when I was a kid. Entertainment. Little now in the way of music I am willing to listen to from most terrestrial stations. While I do miss the old LA FM stations sorely, the current talk radio talent can be pretty amusing, sometimes on purpose.

[DinsdalePirahna]

I listen to KPCC, a public radio station. Which offers very unbiased news and information.
They actually do reporting, and investigative journalism on a local level.

Public Stations such KPCC buy their national/international programming from NPR, Public Radio International (PRI) and the BBC
These groups offer reporting, and investigative journalism on a nationa/international level.

Very far removed from the wacky punditry of MSNBC, FOX and conservative talk radio (liberal talk radio is so far off the radar that only a few people listen to it (Pacifica Radio).

Public radio also has some pretty interesting human interest programming.

[LuckyGem]

I'm tuned into KFI listening almost 24/7.

It's the only station in Los Angeles, to get real news.

[aboveordinary]

Originally Posted by LuckyGem

I'm tuned into KFI listening almost 24/7.

It's the only station in Los Angeles, to get real news.

Sorry I disagree. KFI has too many commercials. KNX 1070 is a far better news source without the fluff and bias.

[Mr_Geek]

Originally Posted by aboveordinary

Sorry I disagree. KFI has too many commercials. KNX 1070 is a far better news source without the fluff and bias.

The fluff and their personal opinions is what makes it awesome!

[BlackShoe]

John and Ken are not right wing or conservatives. They are all over the political band. Populist would be perhaps a more accurate label, focusing mostly on state and local issues rather than national ones.