I have had enough of this bullshit.

[blueclown]

Time to bring back the Fairness Doctrine and to bust up the media trusts.

I just drove home, and on every radio station there was a far right conservative
hack bloviating. Some of them were the same, of course due to the wonders of syndication.

How are the Democrats supposed to compete in the message arena when one of the main forms of media (radio) is dominated by far-right wing hacks?

Local radio needs a comeback. The Democratic Congress, along with the FCC, cannot drop the ball on this.

When will Julius Genachowski be confirmed?

[YOY]

1. Radio is a dead/dying media.

n.t.

[blueclown]

2. No, it isn't.

It's a media whose growth is stagnant, but the audience is still large.

[YOY]

5. Are 18 to 40 year olds still listening to it or finding alternatives?

Seems the latter to me.

[Donnachaidh]

7. wow -- so one demographic calls the shots on media now?

And we wonder why the 18 to 40 year old group has such a short attention span. :eyes:

[YOY]

8. Just the ones who won't be dying in 20 to 50 years.

If you want to be "smart assy" about it.

Therefore it is dying a slow death. I've seen people my age and younger actually turn it off rather than listen to 10 year old songs called "fresh and new" by Clear Channel...

Take my home town of Cleveland. No young people listen to anything other than the "classic rock" station...everything else is mullet rock, the pop that passes itself as country, windbag talk, or canned hip hop.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. AM radio is dying. Great format - 15 minutes of content with 15 min. of snake oil sales.

Though I like listening to Steph, Randy, Ed, et al, I can't put up with the annoyance of TOO MANY ADS and BREAKS!

[tjwash]

9. Hee...my buddy used to work at 760 kfmb here in Diego.

The rule at AM radio stations is, "find a few minutes of filler, in between the commercials."

[spanone]

4. it ain't just radio....teevee is equally as disturbing

[tjwash]

6. Buy yourself a CD player, or add an IPOD hookup.

You'll find yourself a lot happier.

[blueclown]

10. I do.

I listen to my IPOD all the time. This is the first time in about a year that I've turned on talk radio, and it hasn't changed since the last time I did.

But ignoring it isn't going to solve anything.

[tjwash]

12. Trust me man...see my above post.

As I said above..the rule at AM radio stations is "find a few minutes of filler, in between the commercials."

[Raskolnik]

11. "How are the Democrats supposed to compete"

You know, Democrats won the White House, the Senate, and the House, right?

[blueclown]

13. It doesn't matter.

We are still losing the message war, in large part to conservative control over the major media mediums.