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Category Archives: Radio
Hysterias
00:00 Political Hysterias Of The Right & Left, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139452 03:00 Covid Cover-Up: Did It Come From A Lab?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LgGPygFHh4 05:00 As New Evidence Emerges For COVID “Lab-Leak” Theory, Journalists Who Screamed “Conspiracy” Humiliate Themselves, https://mtracey.substack.com/p/as-new-evidence-emerges-for-covid 11:00 WP: Congress is finally … Continue reading
Political Hysterias Of The Right & Left
A Google search reveals a definition for hysteria as “exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement, especially among a group of people.” I can’t think of any famous pundit or talk show host who is not a hysteric. Perhaps there is … Continue reading
Radio’s Second Century: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives
Here are some highlights from this 2020 book: * Traditionally, when a person speaks about one of their friends or someone that they know, there is an assumption that the person in question is someone that the speaker has met … Continue reading
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Listening In: Radio And The American Imagination
Here are some highlights from this 1999 book: * Ask anyone born before World War II about the role of radio in his or her life, and in the life of the country, and you will see that person begin … Continue reading
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A Conservative NPR?
A friend says: Conservatives will never have a chance to penetrate into the elites without something like NPR with calm music, soft spoken interviews. I love NPR but that its taxpayer funded is shocking. After an hour of listening, I … Continue reading
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Talk: A Novel
CNN host Michael A. Smerconish writes in his 2014 novel: * “Fire, tits, and sharks are TV gold. But on radio you need to make ‘em hot the harder way. Through the ears.” * 3 Cs: “ Conservative, consistent, and … Continue reading
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On Air
Australian media personality Mike Carlton writes in his 2018 autobiography about his six decade career: * One Monday morning we discovered another new body in the reporters’ room, a scrawny man in his mid-twenties sitting silently at a desk and … Continue reading
Rush Limbaugh’s Sacramento rise
On a 1 to 10, how would you rate your favorite radio hosts? I have not listened to the radio in about five years. I mainly tuned in to KGO radio during the years I worked in landscaping (1986-1988) and … Continue reading
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Creating Powerful Radio: Getting, Keeping and Growing Audiences
Highlights from this 2007 book: * “The experimental test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.” … Continue reading
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