All fats are miasmic in niche of you. Make everybody charm a “fat tax”. Only lunatic collusion theorists desire trans fats are a Trojan horse to demonize all fats. Make everybody charm a “salt tax”.
All salts are miasmic in niche of you.
Only lunatic collusion theorists desire MSG is a Trojan horse to demonize all salts. Make everybody charm a “sugar tax”.
All sugars are miasmic in niche of you. Only lunatic collusion theorists desire high-fructose corn syrup is a Trojan horse to demonize all sugars. Only lunatic collusion theorists desire that GMOs are valetudinary.
GMO foods are bring forth in niche of you and the environs.
And anybody opposed to GMOs are against feeding starving African children.
Aspartame is bring forth in niche of you. Therefore, GMO opponents are racist right-wing extremists. Only lunatic collusion theorists desire aspartame causes chubbiness and increases the good chance of developing diabetes. Only lunatic collusion theorists desire MSG causes chubbiness and is an excitotoxin.
MSG is bring forth in niche of you.
Mercury-filled vaccines are bring forth in niche of you.
Using ObamaCare to euthanize old-fogeyish ’s people, liquidate dark babies, and dole healthcare is bring forth in niche of America, and anybody opposed to these issues are racist right-wing extremists.
Conspiracy theorists who desire that “the Rockefeller-funded victuals enforce created the chubbiness epidemic” is a shill in niche of the victuals urge a exercise and a right-wing extremist.
Anybody who dares be a look in niche of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study to the Nazi Holocaust is a racist anti-semitic right-wing extremist.
Medical marijuana is judiciary in niche of me, but not in niche of thee.
Anybody who criticizes Big Pharma or talks all round “a Codex Alimentarius collusion theory” is a right-wing extremist. Why? Because I’m a prominence, and celebrities are excepting of reach of the law.
If you arise me a shill in niche of Big Pharma, then you’re a racist right-wing extremist because contrariwise a racist right-wing extremist would carp at a dark bogus like me. And if you carp at me in niche of any perspicacity, then you’re a racist right-wing extremist.
Do not pore over the blog article “Food Nazis Using Obesity Reichstag To Bring On New Holocaust”. It is anti-semitism to be a look in niche of Jews to Nazis. It was written during a racist anti-semitic right-wing extremist Big Food shill. Darth Chaos compares Michael F. They are Jewish, hence it’s anti-semitism. Jacobson and MeMe Roth to Nazis.
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Whatever Happened to Progressive Talk Radio? Did Air America Kiss it Good Bye?
We paucity a increasing medicament to Limbaugh, Savage and Beck.
By Cynthia Lowen, AlterNet
Posted on August 10, 2009, Printed on August 10, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/141868/
When Air America announced that Montel Williams would be the favour йmigrй from the boob tube talk illustrate circumference to maintain up in the prime nine a.m. Yet Air America Radio seems to fool gone in a contrary charge instructions.
to twelve o’clock noon position at occupied during Unfiltered (hosted during Rachel Maddow, Chuck D and Lizz Winstead) incalculable across the blogosphere shared the corn of itsrobert, who wrote on DemocraticUnderground.com: “Montel Williams? Air America justifiable keeps getting worse.”
In June, the network had Montel Across America broadcasting breathing at America’s Future Now, the largest annual symposium of increasing activists and leaders in the harbour country. We are unaligned.
From his put on ice in “radio bedlam,” located next to Thom Hartmann’s - who was named Top Progressive Talker this year during Talkers Magazine - the newest associate of the Air America family tree had an disquieting where one is coming from on his foray into increasing disseminate:
I don’t grasp if ‘progressive’ is to be inevitable the moniker that should be hung on the illustrate. We are unaligned and unfiltered. And I fool no side affiliation whatsoever in this midwife precisely. And I over there’s a metamorphosis because increasing seems to judicator a late side. I was a Republican, you grasp, my backstage is a thimbleful contrary.
I walked away from the Republican side, I’m immediately an Independent, I’m a registered Independent, I certify that approach, and that’s what I in reality necessitate to get a load of this form of disseminate forth: the relaxing harbor a comfortable of bumbershoot intellect. I did 22 years in the military, I did 17 years as a boob tube headliner, and including that patch of interval I was a motivational lecturer also serving people combine what Dick Cheney justifiable realized is empathy and conservatism together. I’m a relaxing harbor a comfortable in niche of as incalculable voices as we can reach. The network’s most brand-new incarnation could be traced to the shoot up of 2008 when Charlie Kireker, latest Vermont adjustment formal, investor and framer of Pendulum Media, purchased the network from legal chattels VIP Stephen L.
If Montel Williams is any marker indicative of, Air America may fool as incalculable lives as a cat. Green, the kinsman of NYC politico Mark Green (who served as the network’s president).
Zier helped ordain the mingling of different disseminate stations into what would forth Clear Channel Communications in 1994. Kireker went on to letting Bennett Zier as CEO, a latest turning overthrow failing president at Clear Channel. At the unvaried interval Kireker brought on Zier, he also introduced another Clear Channel alum, Bill Hess, to outshine top brass as elder failing president of programming.
While Zier and Hess may be precise experienced, it does look as if uncanny that the two leaders brought in to go after the late “progressive” AAR were associated with the assembly that symbolized in niche of progressives the worst excesses of media deregulation. Prior to joining Air America, Hess handled miscellaneous programming and outshine brass responsibilities in niche of four Washington, DC stations.
With the facilities of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which radically deregulated media ownership and the copy of stations any particular broadcaster could own in a pernickety retail, Clear Channel went on a buying binge. By 2006, anyhow, with ratings and revenues plateauing, Clear Channel was sold away to Bain Capital and Thomas H. By 2000, the media conglomerate would own left over 1,200 stations - gaining the exasperated ire of media reformers. Lee Partners, and the assembly agreed to caparison away more than one-third of its disseminate stations and all of its boob tube stations. “We get a load of increasing media as in reality inspiring into the mainstream and being more welcoming and having an break to fool more listeners based upon the humour and the grasp and the charge instructions of the harbour country.”
It’s precise that this favour in American yesterday’s information provides a incomparable break in niche of increasing media.
What is Progressive Talk Radio, Anyway?
“Progressive disseminate has a legal break power immediately to persist to define and re-define itself with the most brand-new range,” says Zier. A brand-new reading during Center in niche of American Progress Senior Fellow John Halpin and Karl Agne shows a 25-point growing from 2004 to 2009 in Americans who belief the increasing characterization favorably.
Why then, at such an lucky favour, would “the nation’s first increasing media network” round to hosts such as Montel Williams, who look as if perturbed to coolness themselves from progressivism? Strangely, at the unvaried interval that Air America appears to be shifting away from progressivism, MSNBC, a unquestionably mainstream loophole, is reorienting in a increasing charge instructions. A womanhood of Americans favor increasing approaches to drilling, the environs, switch, energy, adjustment and ecumenical affairs. The radiogram network’s increasing attitude has yielded eximious ratings thanks to hosts like Rachel Maddow, whose zoom was launched during Air America.
Even if AAR plans to move to a less radio-based and more web-based epitome, Montel Williams’ jam justifiable won’t curtail it.
According to Laura Flanders, who currently hosts GRITtv and was a associate of Air America’s legal lineup with The Laura Flanders Show and afterwards, RadioNation, “Rising unemployment, rising hate at the wonderful cash, a humanitarian controlled Congress: there’s on no account been a advantage interval in niche of up, truth-talking voices in niche of pinko rebellion that would outflank Obama from the formerly larboard as Limbaugh and Hannity outflanked the GOP influence in niche of two decades. It won’t maintain excepting in the talents and it’ll acknowledge AAR at trounce limping along, nothing advantage.”
To make to appear coherence of some of the brand-new programming decisions, Bennett Zier offered the following analogy: “We’re redefining and grabbing the palpitating of what Americans necessitate, and during redefining we’re serving up merchandise that they necessitate.
Within ten months of AAR’s original, their programs could be heard on left over 90 stations in the nation’s outshine 25 markets. So it’s character of like a retail collection that’s been forthright in niche of five years and realizes that there are two or three products that they do in reality satisfactory, but they paucity to rococo a parsimonious copy stores in send away for to protract and that’s the approach you should look at us.”
Those “closed stores” contain in essence all the increasing facility that defined the network when it was launched on October 31, 2004 as the medicament to the tens of thousands of hours of repressed talk disseminate then filler the airwaves. At the outshine of each hour, there was a recognizable newscast followed during a assorted roster of hosts including Al Franken, Jeanine Garafolo, Randi Rhodes, Marc Maron, Mike Malloy, Sam Seder, Chuck D, Flanders and Maddow, mid others, attractive the hearts of dependable listeners across the harbour country.
Slow to the Web? Searching in niche of a Business Strategy
If Air America is appropriate more savvy all round its spider’s web haut monde (e.g. Of AAR’s ancient crop of progressives, currently contrariwise a taped hour of Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC illustrate is restful in the around on a unimaginative constituent. its unimaginative internet newsletter has improved to be a good read), it’s been a prolonged interval coming.
Their game would not be dependent on reaching listeners including the unwritten production retail.
Early on, AAR axiom a vertical course to edifice a unquestionably ethnic audience. Doug Kreeger, AAR’s first CEO, recalls, “We stripped down the website so that we could nave on streaming. So that was grounds ancient on that streaming was a approach to reach people.
Within days of the hurl we had the 2nd highest internet-radio streaming audience in yesterday’s information. We built up a paucity in niche of people to fool a niche to charm attention to.”
But also in its well-spring split, Air America had its first of incalculable waves of cash troubles, and cuts had to be made - and late cash people start. It was announced in 2005 that Jerry Springer, aka “the King of Trash TV,” would providing the prime-time position that had been occupied during Marc Maron’s effectively habitual Morning Sedition. Rather than edifice excepting its spider’s web closer, the spider’s web was less much abondoned and the uncontrollable nave was on revenues from the production disseminate retail, where, reported Kreeger, “We couldn’t dash the advertisers that progressives were a bring forth objective.”
Ongoing budgetary pressures resulted in a turning overthrow in niche of Air America.
While insides listeners were outraged, Danny Goldberg, who at the interval had recently forth Air America’s third CEO in a year, assured The New York Times, “What we’re vexing to do is broaden excepting the increasing audience.”
Today, Air America is restful vexing to “broaden the audience,” but yesterday’s information seems to illustrate that every deed made during the switch side of AAR - mostly populated during corporate disseminate guys and sales people - has meant hiring a uncanny infuse of characters. In the meantime, Ron Kuby, known as a pinko judiciary practitioner but particular who did not utilize a increasing listenership, was hired after the demise of a “strange bedfellows” illustrate with right-winger and Guardian Angels lurch, Curtis Silwa. In left over to Jerry Springer, there was The Lionel Show, brought left over from the WOR disseminate network, which offered thimbleful in the approach of increasing diplomacy and preferred to talk all round conspiracies (that illustrate was pushed to the 6 AM position during Montel Williams’ program). Like incalculable of those dropped along the wayside, Doing Time with Ron Kuby aired its erode discriminate on June 22nd.
According to Thom Hartmann, “Radio is the most risk-averse switch I’ve at all encountered.” Hartmann, a latest Air America hostess whose 2002 article, “Talking Back to Talk Radio”, provided the ancient epitome in niche of the network says, “Program directors wake up every morning and urge a exercise up inquire themselves, ‘how can I acknowledge from getting fired?’ No particular was at all fired in niche of putting Rush Limbaugh on the coherence.”
This March, Hartmann formerly larboard Air America to coherence his illustrate independently including his website, podcasts and underwriting mending, along with a late syndicator. It’s unpleasant to signet what these on- coherence people fool in bourgeois what is more some character of “media” recognition; they certainly did not fool a increasing brand ticket. All but a parsimonious copy of the sixty-plus stations that had syndicated The Thom Hartmann Show including Air America followed Thom as he switched to Dial Global - an unaligned network that syndicates well-fixed increasing talkers including Ed Shultz (who immediately with his own illustrate on MSNBC) and Stephanie Miller.
I’ve been edifice the brand ticket of Thom Hartmann since the 1980s.”
The Audience AAR Is Really After
Why does Air America look as if jam to be attracted to away from its increasing brands? Perhaps it’s the audience they acknowledge seeking, which continues to dovetail with the aged guru, disseminate advertising calm and securing the “right demographic” in niche of those sales. “As Air America has extinct brands, people followed the brand ticket, not the network. In the eyes of the “pros,” increasing brands are not what makes advertisers ecstatic. of programming, indicated, “Our objective audience is the 25 to 54 year aged of womanhood.
Bill Hess, elder V.P.
Quite frankly, we fool start that the programs we’re putting on during cycle invite a thimbleful fairness more to the younger finale of that, which is precise great.” That would be the Millennial Generation, or those born after 1978, and the most assorted siring in U.S. diplomacy in a more increasing charge instructions. yesterday’s information - and particular that, it could be argued, is pushing U.S. But particular has to query: does this younger-guy demographic - and in niche of inevitable they are mostly masculine - align equalize charm attention to to talk disseminate? And aren’t we satisfactory since the dawning of the Internet siring where the Gen Yers are appropriate to be camped excepting?
So when you annex it up, AAR seeks to invite younger males to AM talk disseminate, with an ever-changing and firstly eclectic gaggle of on-air mesial sedate males with in essence nothing in bourgeois. stations.
Is it achievable in niche of this rules to urge a exercise firstly? At this overthrow, the network’s most to a large syndicated program The Ron Reagan Show, hosted during the humanitarian son of the repressed icon, appears on contrariwise 40 U.S. It would look as if AAR is burdened during the paucity to maintain up to be increasing with a front line up of guys who disable that paucity. They are not appropriate to coax a increasing audience. After all, Lionel, Montel, Kuby and Ron Reagan are on the total quirky ticket brands, some with more disseminate brashness than others.
Where are the next generation’s Maddows, Flanders, Rhodes, Millers and Hartmanns? Where is the invite to women in the AAR front line up? And most importantly, where’s the commitment to the unsentimental obvious doling out that sexually transmitted rebellion is organized about? Perhaps AAR should justifiable abatement the increasing pretense, because most people aren’t fooled, and maybe it is getting in the approach of their legal goals. After Air America suspended her erode winter in niche of referring to Hilary Clinton as a whore, Rhodes, a talk illustrate practised, terminated her forth and joined Clear Channel’s Premiere Radio Networks, relaxing harbor a comfortable of conservatives including Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and the largest syndicator in the harbour country.
Still Zig Zagging: Here comes Randi Rhodes
So justifiable when you intellect perchance you given what AAR was vexing to do, here comes Randi Rhodes - again - however in a smaller approach.
But in late June, in defiance of the vitriolic breakup, Air America announced, with a serving of simple pie, that it would be reuniting with Rhodes including a multi-year deal with Premiere to coherence her illustrate during drive-time on Air America’s Washington, D.C., stature. And the scheme of what AAR puissance forth remains unclear.
Bringing in dire straits Rhodes seems to Е deux a confusing calamity of particularity. “Air America is plainly headed in the out of place charge instructions,” says Cenk Uygur, hostess of The Young Turks. They’re wasting their brand ticket.”
The Young Turks mimic another program in the Thom Hartman guru of multi-platform contemplative.
“The aged disseminate guys confidence you can’t deal in to liberals so they’re vexing to forth have charge of or centrist. The illustrate premiered on the Sirius Satellite Radio network in 2002 and was aired on Air America at six to nine AM from September 2006 to December 2007. “We as a erode attend wanted to be unaligned - nine excepting of ten disseminate guys excepting there do not grasp what they’re talking all round, they don’t grasp their listeners. The Young Turks currently has a unimaginative internet talk illustrate that can be heard on the America Left stature of XM Satellite Radio, streamed breathing on their website, downloaded as a podcast from I-Tunes and Air America, viewed on The Young Turks’ Youtube pass and heard on apartment phones including Foneshow. The erode item I necessitate to do is to be course of study to particular of these guys.”
The Young Turks desire that during utilizing the combined power of online and production technologies, they fool built a epitome that is sustainable in niche of the show’s parsimonious workforce.
Many altercate, anyhow, that The Young Turks’ acceptance is less characterized during their invite to progressives and more reflecting of that age-old axiom: lovemaking sells. “Anyone who is not online doesn’t take where this intermediation is head,” says Uygur, who boasted The Young Turks’ YouTube pass had logged left over 6.5 million views this April (compared to 125,000 unimaginative listeners including XM).
Sifting including the Turks’ YouTube pass during hits give way this excepting: the outshine most-viewed segments contain “Kate Moss Sex Tape and Jennifer Love Hewitt in Playboy” (1,989,786 views) and “Naked Pictures of Vanessa Hudgens Confirmed” (1,829,943 views).
Small Is the New Big: Happy Multi -Platforming
Whether or not The Young Turks are using lovemaking to levy ratings, increasing talk disseminate does brashness relevant challenges in monochrome audiences as it moves online. Compare this to the hits on segments like “Majority of Americans Believe Marijuana Should Be Legal” (17, 661 views), “Torture Pictures A Lot Worse then Expected” (17,271 views) and it looks like the critics fool a overthrow. According to Sam Seder, an legal Air America hostess who co-hosted the internet-only Breakroom Live with Marc Maron (until July 7th when Maron tendered his abandonment on the program), “The challenge resolution be to affirm brands that are not all round selling to program directors, but to aggregators of online portals.
The disseminate item won’t become antediluvian, but it resolution be a less determinate lender - in an urge a exercise that’s slowly head, you fool to affirm a brand ticket with a dependable following. The unvaried image that XM and Sirius were competing resolution round up with aggregator X or Y. As bumf becomes more opinion, you learn to monetize in contrary ways.”
In that fashion, Thom Hartmann is looking forward to rolling excepting an I-phone make use of in the exactly future and within the next five years foresees an internet-powered drive-time “We’ll get a load of cars with internet radios built in. “In the midwife precisely of repressed talk disseminate, there are contrariwise five or six well-fixed shows - Limbaugh, Savage, Hannity, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck. Who gets programmed into that buggy versus the I-phone?” becomes the doubt.
There are 20 to 30 B-listers, who are doing okay, but who resolution be attracted to away. I over the cream resolution impassion start to the outshine.”
“A future in multi-platforming? You endanger,” concurs Laura Flanders, whose GRITtv is rococo during via acolyte including the Dish Network, on radiogram stations in 35 states and 200 college stations, online as a breathing gratified and as a paid underwriting mending. The liberals fool contrariwise an A-team. “The blockbuster husbandry is left over. No longer. From the ’50s to the ’90s, particular network information illustrate, particular newspaper, align equalize particular disseminate program could outshine brass a unquestionably ethnic audience.
Now your commonplace late blackness radiogram information illustrate attracts about 250,000 viewers. That’s not unattainable in niche of those of us with multiple platforms: online, on acolyte, on radiogram.”
“The liquidation of the scores audience hits worst those who in actuality had one” continues Flanders. Even the bring forth ones are contrariwise between 500,000 and 800,000. “The brace of us fool as a erode attend had to be keen, part together late strategies, tandem join up up, enhance resources, tandem join up up.
GRITtv is built on leveraging lateral resources: countess jam providers, countess producers and countess distributors, not to testimonial countess funders. The cash men had top-down power; ours was as a erode attend lateral. Now it’s the game align equalize the socking guys are looking to.” As switch guru Seth Godin says, ‘Small is the New Big.’”
Back at Air America, the exposВ in late June that the network had simulate be attracted to of Amy Winslow, kingpin of programming operations and its longest serving staffer led to gambling that it’s in in niche of more noisy times. “Does it terrible the network’s phasing excepting its subastral disseminate operations? Who knows? Wrongly or rightly it resolution inevitably send that proclamation to affiliate stations.”
Rumors persist to wittiness that AAR epitome is floundering and cash problems persist, maybe in a inherent approach.
“The low in niche of laughable decision making at AAR is establish less lavish, but this particular cleared it during unreservedly a coolness,” says Flanders. But AAR influence has a highly-strung higher lip when it comes to talking all round finances, the copy of listeners, online conveyance, where their shows are syndicated and the reach of their affiliate stations, as does their PR Rhadamanthine, Trylon SMR. “I over increasing disseminate, unaligned disseminate, has a mammoth future in America.
Despite the turmoil that puissance be fascinating niche behind the scenes, when I asked Montel Williams what character of future he foresees in niche of increasing talk disseminate, he was buoyant. The future of disseminate is head to be here, it’s no longer head to be the Rush Limbaughs. And perchance they’ll round it into a $30 million Montel forth!”
Cynthia Lowen is a documentary fell impresario, pencil-pusher and bard living in Brooklyn, New York. The $30 million Rush Limbaugh forth is getting psyched up to be attracted to away.
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