From the left leaning Wikipedia:The Center for American Progress was criticized by conservative commentators for its 2007 report titled "The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio."[17] The report states: "Our analysis ... of the 257 news/talk stations owned by the top five commercial station owners reveals that 91 percent of the total weekday talk radio programming is conservative, and 9 percent is progressive." The report did not include analysis of the content of other radio providers, such as universities and public radio. The report suggests three steps to increase progressive radio voices in talk radio: restoring local and national caps on the ownership of commercial radio stations; ensuring greater local accountability over radio licensing; and require commercial owners who fail to abide by enforceable public interest obligations to pay a fee to support public broadcasting.
Some open government groups, such as the Sunlight Foundation and the Campaign Legal Center, criticize the Center's failure to disclose its contributors, particularly since it is so influential in appointments to the Obama administration.[18][19]. . . . . READ MORE IF YOU CARE TO >>>
Editor's notes: what we have here is the rhetorical strategy for limiting conservative talk radio. There are a number of missteps within the above statement. These "missteps" are intentional and done with the hope of framing the debate in the favor of the Left. They include the following:There are actually some 700 stations carrying talk radio but only 257 were singled out, most if not all have non-stop conservative talk. The other 400 plus ? They include stations with non-conservative programing as well as liberal talk.
No mention is made of the televised media. Here, the Progressive Marxist Media dominates news broadcasting time. If talk radio is attacked for imbalance, conservatives will defend their status by pointing to this serious inequity. For example, Fox News stands alone against CNN, HLN, MSNBC, Current T.V.
Also, the Marxist Progressives make no mention of the serious imbalance existing in the world of print media. Virtually all major-city-papers are left leaning.
Another area overlooked but mentioned are the radio outlets of universities and public radio. This editor lives 3 hours south of San Francisco. One of our son's graduated from the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center, one of the more prestigious teaching hospitals in the nation. When we traveled to the Gay City, we were always surprised to find public radio on perhaps 10 different stations with no local conservative talk to be found on the radio dial. In LA, the choices between conservative and liberal talk, including NPR stations favors the Left but only marginally. Ditto for Sacramento in the north and San Diego in the south.
We have a lawyer son in Washington State. Our trips to his part of the country finds a majority of stations presenting the liberal agenda.
Which brings to mind this consideration: if we contrast the number of people who have access to conservative or liberal radio talk, what would be the results. All of the population centers on the West Coast have more access to liberal talk than conservative, but conservative is well represented. We suspect this would be the case in all of the nation's major population centers, as well.
Let's not leave out university talk. You live in Lala Land if you think that conservative talk is given equal time on our campus situations.
Midknight Review does not believe it would be to the advantage of the Dems to push this issue. The counter push would be a demand for equal time in all venues. Conservatives would think this a positive event.
Point of post: as to balance, radio influence would not be the only battle ground. Network televised news wold be included. Population counts, university influence and print media would come into play as well. To our liberal imperialists opponents, we say, BRING IT ON.
(C) J David Smithson
Midknight Review
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