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One reason so many companies go out of business these days is that they are not offering a product the people want, or they are not offering a quality product the people want.
Conservative talk radio has been a staple for many years now and now we are hearing from various Democratic senators that we should return to the fairness doctrine because the liberal side of the spectrum is not being heard.
How many liberal talk radio shows have started only to fail for lack of listeners?
Do you think radio stations, except for Air America, are in the business to lose money? Of course not, so they have conservative talk radio and it’s popular with listeners. Even some liberals listen and get through to voice their opposing opinions. Imagine that!
When I used to listen to Rush Limbaugh while waiting to pick up my granddaughter at school (a long wait) he would always put the dissenters at the head of the line and was always polite with them. Generally they were polite with him also, so why the cry now for the fairness doctrine?
Listen to John Kerry talk about the fairness doctrine:
Give us a product we want and we’ll buy it.
Written by ~J~
Ayschlay Says:
June 27th, 2007 at 5:04 pmVisit Ayschlay
Are we to assume that the media info market works as it’s supposed to, matching demand and supply at the best possible price?
I think the weakest part of market theory is the assumption of perfect information–that consumers know all that’s available, and can therefore accurately weigh various costs and benefits of different kinds of media “products.”
The other problem with market theory is that it doesn’t tell us how to deal with the monopolies or oligopolies that ofen arise (in this case, some worry about Clear Channel as well as the integration of print, TV/Cable, and radio companies).
But all that said, I suspect we don’t have much liberal or left-wing talk radio because many that identify as liberal are more likely to read newspapers, and use the web, for news and commentary. And those who do listen to radio probably listen to NPR.
Check out this Pew survey on news: http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?PageID=1065
~J~ Says:
June 27th, 2007 at 5:55 pmVisit ~J~
I think you’re right about NPR and they can listen to streaming audio from Air America, I think. At least they used to but you may have to sign up and give them all sorts of info about you.
If I don’t want to listen to a radio program I change the station or put in a couple of CDs. If I don’t want to watch a television program I change the channel or don’t watch. I haven’t watched much TV since Clinton was in office.
I didn’t want to watch him every day and made a conscious decision not to watch the news programs. It’s a habit that has carried over even though we have a TV in every room except the kitchen and bathrooms.
There’s not anything on to watch. Once in awhile I hear of a program I might be interested in and watch it, and we got HBO added to our satellite package so we could watch “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” but otherwise it’s here for the grandchildren to watch the game channel or a Disney channel and for my husband to record his stupid westerns.
Big Mo Says:
June 27th, 2007 at 9:36 pmVisit Big Mo
Ayschlay - I think you’ve got it on a very general sense, though on the right spectrum, there still are plenty of print choices as well. The right pretty well abandoned TV news until Fox came along (personally I haven’t been back at all, except for occasionally on the odd blue moon).
As for me, I get news fom talk radio, regular radio (CBS and AP reports), the Internet and blogs. I rarely pick up anything printed or watch any news on the cathode ray tube anymore.
(But I absorb History Channel, Discovery, National Geographic, Sci Fi, Animal Planet and a few others.)