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Can I get a relevant, intelligent answer here? I'll restate my question:
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Originally posted by mackinac81
I was wondering yesterday why liberal talk radio is never nearly as successful as conservative talk radio. Do liberals prefer other media to the talk radio format, or does NPR suffice for most? I'd love to hear any answers from liberals or conservatives.
Because liberals are too busy working and solving problems to tune in to such garbage. Most people that are meaningfully employed don't have time to listen to Rush Limbaugh and his fake outrage. Apparently conservatives have too much time on their hands.
I was wondering yesterday why liberal talk radio is never nearly as successful as conservative talk radio. Do liberals prefer other media to the talk radio format, or does NPR suffice for most? I'd love to hear any answers from liberals or conservatives.
Mackinac
This is speculative and flippant, but I think it is because they are so interested in being angry about other peoples opinions that they are all listening to the conservative stations. *chuckle*
First, I don't think main stream media (MSM) intentionally skews their news to the left in some sort of conspiracy theory like the the conservative talk show hosts would like you to believe. I think its more that MSM reports on things that change in our world. Things that change in our world are inherently progressive and are identifed as liberal and/or from the left.
By definition, conservative views are traditional views, things that don't change and have stayed the same. Not really good fodder for news. Why bother reporting on something that doesn't change?
Therefore, conservative talk radio has had to do something to make their news interesting. They make their news interesting by taking an anti-liberal/anti-progressive stance. If you listen to conservative talk radio it all about how the left wants to change things and why this is a bad thing if you have conservative views. The conservative views themselves aren't the news, the news is that the left wants to changes these views. Its ironic that there would not be conservative talk radio if there wasn't a liberal left to disagree with!
I agree completely.
I've tried listening and watching some of the conservative TV and talk-radio (just for a different point of view), but all they do is whine, whine, and more whining. I just can't take it! It's like having a nagging mate in your life, who wants it! But I guess there's an audience for almost anything.
I've tried listening and watching some of the conservative TV and talk-radio (just for a different point of view), but all they do is whine, whine, and more whining. I just can't take it! It's like having a nagging mate in your life, who wants it! But I guess there's an audience for almost anything.
And yet I've listened to left radio and felt the same way. So maybe the truth lies somewhere in between those experiences. That for part of the reason is because we disagree with their views and so any question to our own acceptance of conditions are considered pointless rants or whines.
I was wondering yesterday why liberal talk radio is never nearly as successful as conservative talk radio. Do liberals prefer other media to the talk radio format, or does NPR suffice for most? I'd love to hear any answers from liberals or conservatives.
Mackinac
The only liberal talk radio I've heard was down in Oregon and it was a bunch of moonbat conspiracy theory garbage. Mostly people calling in to talk about how they wanted to waterboard the current administration to figure out what really happened on 9/11/01. Somebody also called in about how the human population needed to be thinned out because there were too many for the environment to support.
Because liberals are too busy working and solving problems to tune in to such garbage. Most people that are meaningfully employed don't have time to listen to Rush Limbaugh and his fake outrage. Apparently conservatives have too much time on their hands.
could you please show me a stat or some sort of study that shows this? or were you jsut making some dumb simple remark? kinda like |oh hes strong and works out so he must be dumb because he doesnt ahve time to study"
"Conservative" talk shows appeal to the lowest (ie stupidest, most vulgar, most brutal, most ignorant, most hateful, most violent) common denominator. The World Wrestling Federation has a much larger audience than Masterpiece Theater.
I don't get the appeal of talk radio period. As others have stated, a lot of whining and it is all the fault of (Insert Democrats or Republicans depending on the program) and one side is all Evil and the other side is all Noble. Kind of simplistic and repetitive.
Maybe the fact that generally speaking conservatives enjoy seeing the world in black and white stereotypes and liberals tend to see more grey in many complex issues.
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What I don't like about political talk radio is the fact it is radio.
I like to see someone's eyes and body language when they talk, sometimes they tell an entirely different story than the words.
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