It’s all about advertising. Sponsorship. Ad sells. Big bucks. Money to be made from being insanely bazaar. The more outrageous, the better.
What is it? Why, it’s Talk Radio. Blasting, bashing, and bloviating. It’s radio’s version of reality TV. Survivor on “Speed.” Hyperbolic rhetoric. Hyperbolizing. Hysteria and Hellishness all wrapped up in one media freak show called, Talk Radio.
And to be perfectly clear, we are talking about talk radio from both sides of the partisan civil war. From the right. From the left. Yes, both Rush and Big Ed. All pontificate Dogma. Barking, biting, and besmirching the other’s conspiracy theories.
However, most listeners to either doctrinaire, actually believe the talk show hosts prattling rants. Rants certainly expanded beyond reason and rationality. Rants going over the top. Over the top only to sell advertising. But, the listener is not aware of This media trick. A trick only, and let me repeat, only to sell advertising. Sponsorship. Bla bla bla sold only for money. And again, bla bla only selling to big time national advertising accounts.
And to repeat again, advertising is key. Speaking the truth is not. Stirring the pot and poking fingers in the eyes of the opposition is the means to the end. And once again, the end is to sell baby sell. And the ONLY way to sell is to create an enormous boiling caldron of lies, exaggerations, misrepresentations, distortions, innuendos, embarrassments, black eyes, and on and on. All stewing in one big witches brew called, Talk Radio.
Now, here is the saddest fact of all. Many gullible and shallow people really believe this crap. Yes. It’s true. Many naïve ignoramuses hang on every word of the garrulous show host’s hypertensive blabbering. The unsuspecting listener believe it to the point that they cover their cars with insulting bumper stickers. Front yards awash in a sea of ranting yard signs. And wearing T-shirt exposing anybody they and the talk show host absolutely disdain. Finally Sending the radio recruit off to a battle armed with smoke and rubber bullets. Completely misguided and bound to get hurt in the process. All to defend some talk show host’s convoluted demagoguery.
In the mean time, as mentioned before, the talk show host walks away with tens of millions of dollars from advertisements. Probably snickering how stupid the listener is. Just one more day of potty talk and a walk to the bank.
So we can conclude, Disparaging the opposition with humiliating rhetoric sells ads. Being Mr. Nice Guy is the kiss of death for any talk show host. Bullying and blowing hard is key to talk showary. Sick’em Rush!
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
You talk too much. You worry me to death.
It’s the weekend and time to have a few friends over for the evening. A great time to rekindle friendships. So, you have a few of your closest friends over for snacks, drinks and conversation. But when you’re having fun time slips away. It’s getting late but conversation continues. And talk is not letting up. One topic begets another and the yapping seems endless into the late evening and on into the early morn. Consequently the clock on the wall is completely ignored for the sake of fun and sometimes interesting conversation.
However as talk continues, you and your guests get to the point where you are mindlessly repeating yourselves. Saying things you had covered earlier but might have forgotten. But to make conversation a bit more interesting, you slip in a little hyperbole or a half truth. Then conversation gets to the point you and your gests are saying things all of you have no idea what being said. Basically making things up. Just for the sake of continuing the conversation. Mostly silly nonsensical talk. Just Bla bla bla. Indicating it’s past time to send your guests home and you go to bed.
Now, here is my point. The very same thing happens with talk hosts on talk radio and late night talk TV. They get to the point where all available topics have been covered many times . Consequently the conversation must continue. Continue with hyperbole and half truths. Remember our conversation above? The same happens with talk radio and TV. In order to talk two or three hours a day, five days a week much of the conversation is packaged in processed baloney. Exaggerations, untruths, rumors, and manufactured dialogue.
And this is true with both conservative and liberal talk. You can only say so much without saying something contrived. Contrived for the sake of filling all the blank spaces. Filler words to prop up the conversation. Again, filler otherwise known as baloney. BS, horse shooie, and word crap. Stuff finally resulting in basic misinformation and “Tabloidism.”
And the bottom line in “Talk Radio” is to create controversy in order to sell advertising. Selling and making money is what Talk Radio is all about. Nothing else. It’s a business and no one cares how the money is made. Just bring it on. Say something stupid and make a buck. It’s as simple as that.
Talk Radio is worthless senseless ooze from the horses rear end. Never ever believe what you hear on Talk Radio. Radio the way it was not meant to be. Today’s talk radio has spiraled down into a black hole of empty rhetoric and hyperbole. Just basic cow splat on your living room floor.
Where’s Fibber McGee and Molly when we need them? We need basic entertainment. Not horse feathers. In the meantime, turn off the radio and TV. Talk radio is for hollow headed bimbos. Go get your newspaper and read.
However as talk continues, you and your guests get to the point where you are mindlessly repeating yourselves. Saying things you had covered earlier but might have forgotten. But to make conversation a bit more interesting, you slip in a little hyperbole or a half truth. Then conversation gets to the point you and your gests are saying things all of you have no idea what being said. Basically making things up. Just for the sake of continuing the conversation. Mostly silly nonsensical talk. Just Bla bla bla. Indicating it’s past time to send your guests home and you go to bed.
Now, here is my point. The very same thing happens with talk hosts on talk radio and late night talk TV. They get to the point where all available topics have been covered many times . Consequently the conversation must continue. Continue with hyperbole and half truths. Remember our conversation above? The same happens with talk radio and TV. In order to talk two or three hours a day, five days a week much of the conversation is packaged in processed baloney. Exaggerations, untruths, rumors, and manufactured dialogue.
And this is true with both conservative and liberal talk. You can only say so much without saying something contrived. Contrived for the sake of filling all the blank spaces. Filler words to prop up the conversation. Again, filler otherwise known as baloney. BS, horse shooie, and word crap. Stuff finally resulting in basic misinformation and “Tabloidism.”
And the bottom line in “Talk Radio” is to create controversy in order to sell advertising. Selling and making money is what Talk Radio is all about. Nothing else. It’s a business and no one cares how the money is made. Just bring it on. Say something stupid and make a buck. It’s as simple as that.
Talk Radio is worthless senseless ooze from the horses rear end. Never ever believe what you hear on Talk Radio. Radio the way it was not meant to be. Today’s talk radio has spiraled down into a black hole of empty rhetoric and hyperbole. Just basic cow splat on your living room floor.
Where’s Fibber McGee and Molly when we need them? We need basic entertainment. Not horse feathers. In the meantime, turn off the radio and TV. Talk radio is for hollow headed bimbos. Go get your newspaper and read.
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