Can we find a Progressive Alternative to Coast-to-CoastAM?

[radhika]

I have been alternative and metaphysical since I was a kid. Fearless psycho-naut. And a night owl. For years (starting with Art Bell) C2C was a touchstone for the kinds of things I liked to track in the wee-wee hours. Now, alas. It has changed.

Host George Noory has veered more and more conservative - both politically and religiously. He has Jerome Corsi and Alex Jones on regularly, hosts tons of Endtime Intelligent Designers, Biblical climate change deniers, Anti-X, Mark-of-the-Beast microchips. He gives much space to the Birther meme, hypes fear-based economic collapse, NWO, 'they-are-coming-for-our guns' and xenophobia. AND NO PROGRESSIVE OFFSETTING IDEAS.

As he spreads his corporate wings more onto cable shows, newsletters and pay-per-view deals he seems poised to be ClearChannel's Glen Beck of Alt. I sorta sense this is a well-planned corporate media strategy that ties in nicely with Right Wing objectives.

We gotta reclaimn the Alt. On AM radio at night - accessible to the masses and truckers on the road. Any ideas of how we might locate and position a new intriguing experienced and radio host? Who can explore realms beyond without a T-Bag on his head.

[rumpel]

1. Hi radhika! Maybe you can find something at

http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/home.htm

I do not listen much to radio but that sounds discouraging. I have to research a little to see how we can reclaim an AM radio station other than purchasing one.
Who knows, if many organizations get together - it may not be such a far fetched idea or deal.

:hi:

[MrMickeysMom]

2. I totally agree with you...

I'm sure with all of the stronger signals within the short band radio spectrum, there could be a growing audience for a progressive C2C, which I not only loved, but remember my mom loving. She's since passed on, but the memory of an Art Bell, coupled with a new age format would turn so many people on to things you could sit up all night and talk about!

Maybe we could concentrate on this happening.

[southerncrone]

3. Agreed, we need another balanced source for alt on the air waves.

Teddy Bart may be an option. Before the internet, I listened to his Beyond Reason show in Nashville every week day. I would never have been exposed to the number of spiritual & enlightened souls otherwise. Beyond Reason is apparently only available via the web now, but here is a link. Ironically, I can't listen since my only option is dial-up. :(

http://www.teddybart.com/

http://www.beyondreason.com/

He also has a facebook page.

[get the red out]

7. Thanks for the link Southerncrone!

I have been looking for more alternatives online to download. I certainly don't subscribe to Coast anymore.

[radhika]

4. Thanks all - let's explore this..keep in touch n/t

[Celebration]

5. the one that bothers me is Corsi

There is something seriously wrong with that guy. I think he has George fooled. At least he reigns him in somewhat and doesn't let him say that many nasty things. George certainly is no progressive, but he isn't Glenn Beck, IMHO.

And, Art Bell isn't exactly progressive! And Ian Punnett actually really cares about the poor.

I don't think there is any way to replace George--the ratings are too high. But maybe we should all complain when Corsi comes on.

Do remember that the "science advisor" Richard Hoagland, is quite progressive, and so is David Sereda.

The economics people he has on are not "progressive", but they could not stand Bush, and they called the housing bubble. And I am no fan of Obama's economic team, so I actually agree with a ton of what Catherine Austin Fitts says.

The best bet would be to complain to George when someone comes on, like Corsi, who is way over the edge. I am no Alex Jones fan, but I feel that people like him serve a use in society. If he continues to be on the show, but just a little bit, that would suit me fine.

George should have people on like Naomi Wolf, a progressive anti government person. The fact that he hasn't had her on says a lot about George's anti-liberal bias (though he doesn't vote). He THINKS he is even handed, but he is not. But when people ask George questions about Obama's motives, he always indicates that Obama is well intentioned, not part of the NWO, etc.

[get the red out]

6. Thank you! I am glad I'm not the only one

I am so glad I am not the only one that has been suspicious of this. Something else very telling for me in regarding a "corporate agenda" is that suddenly Alex Jones is listed on iTunes radio. There is NO WAY he would have crept mainstream when Bush was in office, but now that he is making up insane crap on the Democrats he is such a darling.

George has definitely disappointed me, he even seems to be becoming something of a global warming denier, when Art was in the vanguard of informing the public about that very dangerous situation. It is all tea-bagger all the time with a little UFO information thrown in here and there. Art used to have so many great guests with beyond mainstream spiritual ideals it really opened me up to alternative possibilities and helped me in amazing ways. George Noory is corporate through and through I now believe, half the time I beg my husband to turn him off so I can go to sleep. I get so mad at the tea bagger types he has on that I can't drift off, (put a good UFO guy on and I'm down for the count, love that stuff).

I am sick to death of the tea bagger astroturf non-movement taking over anything alternative, sick of it. It is such an OBVIOUS corporate ploy, making people THINK all this stuff is their idea. Sure it is. To me the "mainstreaming" of a lot of alternative media just as this astroturf stuff is being pounded on our heads in the media, and is taking over the unusual, proves to me that it is one huge ploy.

[radhika]

8. I also like Ian Punnet and Austin-Fitts...

And do not for a minute want to keep anyone off the air. Personally, I find Hoagland wonderful and delight in David Icke.

George recently said that he is proud that his show was able to raise profile of Alex JOnes (who also does good radio). Ian, the minister, is the most spiritual and open-minded with great generosity of spirit. I almost always tune in when Ian is on - and am fine with weekend host George Knapp. But in recent weeks when I've dail-hopped, I have heard George repeatedly say that climate change is a HOAX. All his guests affirm that. In the Presidential primary season of 2008, he said that Tom Tancredo was right on Immigration and has had many secure-the-border zealots on. He insists Obama wants OUR GUNS.

He and last week's guest Jim Marrs got into a discussion with a caller where the topic was Obama's birth certificate (and lack thereof). George agreed it is a problem, but laments that the liberals and MSM refuse to pick up the story. And in the same conversation Jim Marrs (who I find enjoyable as a guest) literally said to the caller 'if we can't solve it at the ballot box, we will at the AMMO box). I s*it you not.

Strategically, I think ClearChannel is going for the same demographic that made Fox News successful. That would be fine if this business model didn't fuel the same groups that are parading guns, forming militias, relaying death threats, displaying racist regalia and challenging the legitimacy of our elected government.) I also dislike the fact that many of his gold-selling financial gurus (NOT Austin-Fitts, who is wise) only descry doom and collapse and never highlight positive or offsetting options. Few C2C callers or guests are minorities and most are part of the Judeo-Christian culture judging by their comments. (Altho to be fair, when I attend astrology, UFO, conspiracy or alt conventions there are few in the audience).

I'm just saying: THE RIGHT WING HAS A HOLD OF MASS MARKET LATE NIGHT PROGRAMMING.

[get the red out]

10. Jim Maars is a "birther" for sure

When I read on Jim Maars site that he was a birther about a year ago I stopped listening to any program with him on it or reading any article of his. I used to enjoy his point of view and had read several books he wrote, but that was too much.

I absolutely agree with you that the right wing had taken hold of late night programming, I am sure they see it as a way to get to people who are both curious (unlike their religious right base) and turned off by the hostility of the AM monsters like Limbaugh and Beck. I started feeling this way shortly after the election, I don't recall any climate change deniers on Coast until after President Obama was elected. It is very possible that someone is telling George to catch the great wave that is TEABAGGING, though I believe that to be media hype in itself, less astroturf coverage than they want us to believe.

[NJCher]

9. Great Idea

Here's a list of paranormal shows. We ought to all listen to one and report back on who might be the most liberal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_shows_with_a_focus_on_the_paranormal

I don't know about the politics of this guy Mel Fabregas who is host of The Veritas Show but from what little I've heard, I like him. You can find his shows at UFO Blogger, over on the right hand side.


Cher