The Main Stream Opinion Media Is Heavily Conservative

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We often hear conservatives complaining about how the media is liberal.

And since Trump many of them won't even listen any more.

But the one thing they will listen to is talking head opinion pundits.

Naturally, both flavors can be found.

But the thing is this:

This media is overwhelmingly dominated by conservatives.

Sure, there are liberal pundits. They are out there. But they are vastly outnumbered by the conservative ones.

Of this, there can be no dispute.
 
Why is that?

I can offer at least one opinion, and that is that the Progressive Leftist ones are grating, arrogant, annoying, and shrill, among other negatives. For example, Al Franken set up Air America, a Progressive Leftist media group that was to counter Right wing talk radio. I tried to listen, but found I couldn't take the inane, often vulgar, insulting, grating style many of his show hosts had.

Stephanie Miller came off as a buzzed (she claimed to be drinking while doing the show more than once), college freshman who thinks scatological humor and insulting the opposition was hilarious. It was puerile and juvenile.

Randi Rhodes was just vicious. She got tossed off the air one time for making threats against a sitting President (the Secret Service paid her a visit), Bush II. She was just so grating and vulgar you couldn't listen for more than 15 to 30 minutes.

Ed Schultz was another blowhard on this station. He passed away a while ago. Two that I remember from his show were once he advocated voter fraud, then when called out on it doubled down while trying to make it into a joke. The other was he once brazenly challenged Dennis Prager, a Conservative talker, to a debate. Prager responded with Name the time and place! Prager even went so far as to offer to pay all expenses of Schultz to participate. Schultz quickly started hemming and hawing then backed down. I thought after that he was nothing but a spineless bully.

Franken's own show was nothing short of stupid. It was like bad open mic night at a comedy club where every person taking a turn could talk about nothing but politics. It made you want to leave.

The only one that seemed reasonable was Thom Hartmann. He really tried and used much the same format as Conservative talkers did. I didn't always agree with his views, but at least they were reasonable and debated on his show.

Anyway, that's why the Left fails so badly at commentary. They bunk no real debate, and when presented with any opinion other than their own get rude, vulgar, and vicious toward the person offering it. Who wants to listen to that?
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Why is that?

I can offer at least one opinion, and that is that the Progressive Leftist ones are grating, arrogant, annoying, and shrill, among other negatives. For example, Al Franken set up Air America, a Progressive Leftist media group that was to counter Right wing talk radio. I tried to listen, but found I couldn't take the inane, often vulgar, insulting, grating style many of his show hosts had.

Stephanie Miller came off as a buzzed (she claimed to be drinking while doing the show more than once), college freshman who thinks scatological humor and insulting the opposition was hilarious. It was puerile and juvenile.

Randi Rhodes was just vicious. She got tossed off the air one time for making threats against a sitting President (the Secret Service paid her a visit), Bush II. She was just so grating and vulgar you couldn't listen for more than 15 to 30 minutes.

Ed Schultz was another blowhard on this station. He passed away a while ago. Two that I remember from his show were once he advocated voter fraud, then when called out on it doubled down while trying to make it into a joke. The other was he once brazenly challenged Dennis Prager, a Conservative talker, to a debate. Prager responded with Name the time and place! Prager even went so far as to offer to pay all expenses of Schultz to participate. Schultz quickly started hemming and hawing then backed down. I thought after that he was nothing but a spineless bully.

Franken's own show was nothing short of stupid. It was like bad open mic night at a comedy club where every person taking a turn could talk about nothing but politics. It made you want to leave.

The only one that seemed reasonable was Thom Hartmann. He really tried and used much the same format as Conservative talkers did. I didn't always agree with his views, but at least they were reasonable and debated on his show.

Anyway, that's why the Left fails so badly at commentary. They bunk no real debate, and when presented with any opinion other than their own get rude, vulgar, and vicious toward the person offering it. Who wants to listen to that?
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Can you explain why MSNBC has been the number 1, cable channel of late?
 
PoliTalker said:
We often hear conservatives complaining about how the media is liberal.

And since Trump many of them won't even listen any more.

But the one thing they will listen to is talking head opinion pundits.

Naturally, both flavors can be found.

But the thing is this:

This media is overwhelmingly dominated by conservatives.

Sure, there are liberal pundits. They are out there. But they are vastly outnumbered by the conservative ones.

Of this, there can be no dispute.
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What does "mainstream media" refer to? Facebook? FOX? New York Times? Who are they?
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Why is that?

I can offer at least one opinion, and that is that the Progressive Leftist ones are grating, arrogant, annoying, and shrill, among other negatives. For example, Al Franken set up Air America, a Progressive Leftist media group that was to counter Right wing talk radio. I tried to listen, but found I couldn't take the inane, often vulgar, insulting, grating style many of his show hosts had.

Stephanie Miller came off as a buzzed (she claimed to be drinking while doing the show more than once), college freshman who thinks scatological humor and insulting the opposition was hilarious. It was puerile and juvenile.

Randi Rhodes was just vicious. She got tossed off the air one time for making threats against a sitting President (the Secret Service paid her a visit), Bush II. She was just so grating and vulgar you couldn't listen for more than 15 to 30 minutes.

Ed Schultz was another blowhard on this station. He passed away a while ago. Two that I remember from his show were once he advocated voter fraud, then when called out on it doubled down while trying to make it into a joke. The other was he once brazenly challenged Dennis Prager, a Conservative talker, to a debate. Prager responded with Name the time and place! Prager even went so far as to offer to pay all expenses of Schultz to participate. Schultz quickly started hemming and hawing then backed down. I thought after that he was nothing but a spineless bully.

Franken's own show was nothing short of stupid. It was like bad open mic night at a comedy club where every person taking a turn could talk about nothing but politics. It made you want to leave.

The only one that seemed reasonable was Thom Hartmann. He really tried and used much the same format as Conservative talkers did. I didn't always agree with his views, but at least they were reasonable and debated on his show.

Anyway, that's why the Left fails so badly at commentary. They bunk no real debate, and when presented with any opinion other than their own get rude, vulgar, and vicious toward the person offering it. Who wants to listen to that?
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Didn't BELO buy out Air American stations just to get rid of them?

Thom Hartman ended up a Bernie Bot and unemployed!
 
Hello Geeko Sportivo,

Geeko Sportivo said:
Didn't BELO buy out Air American stations just to get rid of them?

Thom Hartman ended up a Bernie Bot and unemployed!
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Correction:

Thom Hartmann has a current ongoing radio show with 7 million listeners:

"Hartmann's 2002 article, "Talking Back To Talk Radio",[3] became part of the original business plan of Air America Radio, and he started his radio program out of his home in Vermont in March 2003. He moved to the Air America network in 2007 and then to the Jones Radio Network (later Dial Global and Westwood One) in 2009. His current syndicator is DGital Media.[4] The radio show is also broadcast on community/non-profit stations via Pacifica Radio and Free Speech TV. The Thom Hartmann Program has 7 million listeners a week and is one of the top progressive talk radio programs" wiki
 
All media has a filter. It is owned by corporations. All of it. They own the newspapers, radio tv, magazines, many internet sites, and movie studios too. When that Iraq war was starting, all media, including PBS backed it. On cable, Phil Donahue was fired stepping out of line. I was shocked by how strongly the single theme dominated.https://beta.cjr.org/resources It is not that corps own them, but each corporation owns many types. One will own newspapers, TV stations, magazines, and radio stations. Sometimes they own a movie studio too.
That is simply almost every method of communication is run by shakers inside corporations and directed by the ownership society. Free press and open information is an illusion.
 
floridafan said:
All depends on the age ranges you use, my dear.
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PoliTalker said:
Hello Geeko Sportivo,



Correction:

Thom Hartmann has a current ongoing radio show with 7 million listeners:

"Hartmann's 2002 article, "Talking Back To Talk Radio",[3] became part of the original business plan of Air America Radio, and he started his radio program out of his home in Vermont in March 2003. He moved to the Air America network in 2007 and then to the Jones Radio Network (later Dial Global and Westwood One) in 2009. His current syndicator is DGital Media.[4] The radio show is also broadcast on community/non-profit stations via Pacifica Radio and Free Speech TV. The Thom Hartmann Program has 7 million listeners a week and is one of the top progressive talk radio programs" wiki
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Thom Hartmann and Stephanie Miller are both on radio in Phoenix
https://tunein.com/radio/KPHX-1480-s34667/
 
PoliTalker said:
Hello Geeko Sportivo,



Correction:

Thom Hartmann has a current ongoing radio show with 7 million listeners:

"Hartmann's 2002 article, "Talking Back To Talk Radio",[3] became part of the original business plan of Air America Radio, and he started his radio program out of his home in Vermont in March 2003. He moved to the Air America network in 2007 and then to the Jones Radio Network (later Dial Global and Westwood One) in 2009. His current syndicator is DGital Media.[4] The radio show is also broadcast on community/non-profit stations via Pacifica Radio and Free Speech TV. The Thom Hartmann Program has 7 million listeners a week and is one of the top progressive talk radio programs" wiki
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Thanks. He must not be on any DFW stations here.

I used to like listening to him on Air America. But I disagreed with his negative comments he made about Biden during the campaign.

I like Bernie as well, but do not agree with his proposals of paying off everyones student loans, and free college for everyone, and doing away with American Heath Insurance companies.
 
Hello T. A. Gardner,

T. A. Gardner said:
Why is that?

I can offer at least one opinion, and that is that the Progressive Leftist ones are grating, arrogant, annoying, and shrill, among other negatives. For example, Al Franken set up Air America, a Progressive Leftist media group that was to counter Right wing talk radio. I tried to listen, but found I couldn't take the inane, often vulgar, insulting, grating style many of his show hosts had.

Stephanie Miller came off as a buzzed (she claimed to be drinking while doing the show more than once), college freshman who thinks scatological humor and insulting the opposition was hilarious. It was puerile and juvenile.

Randi Rhodes was just vicious. She got tossed off the air one time for making threats against a sitting President (the Secret Service paid her a visit), Bush II. She was just so grating and vulgar you couldn't listen for more than 15 to 30 minutes.

Ed Schultz was another blowhard on this station. He passed away a while ago. Two that I remember from his show were once he advocated voter fraud, then when called out on it doubled down while trying to make it into a joke. The other was he once brazenly challenged Dennis Prager, a Conservative talker, to a debate. Prager responded with Name the time and place! Prager even went so far as to offer to pay all expenses of Schultz to participate. Schultz quickly started hemming and hawing then backed down. I thought after that he was nothing but a spineless bully.

Franken's own show was nothing short of stupid. It was like bad open mic night at a comedy club where every person taking a turn could talk about nothing but politics. It made you want to leave.

The only one that seemed reasonable was Thom Hartmann. He really tried and used much the same format as Conservative talkers did. I didn't always agree with his views, but at least they were reasonable and debated on his show.

Anyway, that's why the Left fails so badly at commentary. They bunk no real debate, and when presented with any opinion other than their own get rude, vulgar, and vicious toward the person offering it. Who wants to listen to that?
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Well, I'm impressed that you listened enough to learn all those names and form an opinion about each.

I wouldn't expect you to be very flattering of them, so no big surprise there.

Personally, though, I have a different view of why conservative talk programming is so much more popular than progressive.

It's emotional.

I see liberal programming as more informative and conservative programming as more emotional.

Liberal programming is informative, helps the audience become more informed, gives the audience reasons to be concerned about what is going on.

Conservative programming is less informative, but stirs the emotions of the audience more, causes hatred of liberals.

It is more tedious to become informed than it is to become emotional.

Emotions are primal. Humans are animals. They are naturally drawn to emotionally stirring stimuli.
 
Hello Nordberg,

Nordberg said:
All media has a filter. It is owned by corporations. All of it. They own the newspapers, radio tv, magazines, many internet sites, and movie studios too. When that Iraq war was starting, all media, including PBS backed it. On cable, Phil Donahue was fired stepping out of line. I was shocked by how strongly the single theme dominated.https://beta.cjr.org/resources It is not that corps own them, but each corporation owns many types. One will own newspapers, TV stations, magazines, and radio stations. Sometimes they own a movie studio too.
That is simply almost every method of communication is run by shakers inside corporations and directed by the ownership society. Free press and open information is an illusion.
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They don't own PBS, NPR or BBC.

They have some influence, but not much.
 
Hello Geeko Sportivo,

Geeko Sportivo said:
Thanks. He must not be on any DFW stations here.

I used to like listening to him on Air America. But I disagreed with his negative comments he made about Biden during the campaign.

I like Bernie as well, but do not agree with his proposals of paying off everyones student loans, and free college for everyone, and doing away with American Heath Insurance companies.
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Those things could work and work very well, but only if most of the country is in favor of it. Countries which have done those things see they are popular.
 
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