Re: Liberal Radio Tries Again

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 00:03:39 GMT, The right <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> The first radio network explicitly created to bring liberal talk 
>> to a medium dominated by conservatives will debut January 5 on 
>> stations in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. 
>
>They've already got a radical left wing talk-show station in SF--KGO 810 
>AM.  They've been far to the left for decades now, and the two right-wing 
>stations that have sprung up in the past 10 years exist primarily as a 
>backlash against KGO's radical rantings.
>
>> comics Al Franken and Janeane Garafalo.
>
>Good, that'll get their message across and show middle-of-the-road 
>Americans what the left is all about.  They will be helping to push the 
>vote to the right!
>
>> "Networks have tried such liberals as Mario Cuomo, Jerry Brown 
>> and Jim Hightower," says Michael Harrison, editor of the radio 
>> industry magazine Talkers. "Politics doesn't drive talk radio, 
>> the search for revenue does and liberals don't bring it in."
>
>Now for a bit of balance: That Communist named Bill Press had a damn good 
>show in Los Angeles ten years ago...he was almost as entertaining as 
>Rush.  I never understood why he didn't make it nationally.  If they give 
>him three hours on this new commie network, I'll probably listen to see 
>if he's still got it--or is he too big for his britches these days, and 
>stuck in front of the TV camera?

Way back when Press was on, LA had a huge Vandalisim graffitti
problem.  Press's soulution to the problem was to catch the vandals
and send yhem to Disneyland or summer camps.  I thought the concept
that rewarding vandalism would deter it was hilarious.