Rachel, you're next. Lawrence, you too......(Pirate Radio's the next thing)

[NightWatcher]

I just woke up (midnight -noon shift here in the Gulf) to read and hear the news about Keith. "Liberal Media"? Ha, good one. Comcast and General Electric own the "liberal" news.

How long before GE/Comcast get rid of "liberal" dissent altogether?

So what now, we can sign a petition that will be ignored just like the last petition and the one before that.

This will pass and we'll forget all about ever hearing anything but the corporate line on the public air. They can fool half the people by making them think that the tea baggers are real grassroots Amurikans. Everyone else will be shut up and shut out. Then prepare for the final assault, The Net.

The Net, the last place where us Normals can actually find News will be next. Once the net is relegated to porn and corporate sponsored content the only thing we'll have is shortwave and weak AM radio. Beat the rush now and get your HAM license before a repuke/corpo Congress tell the FCC to shut down those outlets as well.

Prepare for Pirate Radio me mates! The last outpost.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

1. Actually, I think Ed is most in danger. n/t

[NightWatcher]

2. Oh that's a given, but he's not in the same league as Rachel

Ed's already caught shit a few times from the boss for his clumsy words. He'll be gone in a month, tops. Sooner if he speaks out and speaks up against his Lords.

But Joe 'the dead intern' will keep his show and probably expand his footprint there.

[Leopolds Ghost]

3. Us Normals - apparently it's no longer Normal to rely on broadcast TV since I don't hear any protest

About how Comcast (a cable conglomerate) will surely go after NBC's broadcast wing and defund its affiliates, too.

Which is an actionable anti-trust offense.

But Obama's FCC appointees have already declared they want to "phase out" ALL TRADITIONAL MEDIA and force all Americans to get Internet and cable TV over a (drumroll)

UNIVERSAL SET-TOP BOX

Yes, you heard it here, the Obama Admin is in on it.

The FCC want to eliminate newspapers, radio, broadcast TV, AND land-line telephones,

and make cable the standard for Internet service over a single device.

An idea first populated by utopian (and dystopian) futurists in the 70s.

And a lot of affluent 20-somethings agree with them -- after all they look down on anyone who doesn't subscribe to cable-broadband or (HORRORS!) "STILL READS NEWSPAPERS!"

And you wonder why the country is the way it is?

[KharmaTrain]

4. Must Be Some High Powered Coffee Running Around This Place...

From one whose gone through many a format change in my former media life, if something was going to change, it would be one big move rather than by attrition. If you're going to purge 'em then do it at once so you don't have any malcontents left around who can mess things up. So if the tin foil of Comcast (who still hasn't gotten approval for their takeover of UNI) is doing some voodoo here, then all of the "libruls" would go. If anyone was a danger it was Rachel who brought out the Chamber of horrors stories and Schultz who has said far more outlandish things than Olbermann. They also wouldn't have just recently green-lighted O'Donnell's show...a major financial committment. So the tea leaves don't match the tin foil.

A major reason why so much radio is loaded with hate is that's the only audience that's left. Overall, the only people who still listen to AM radio are those who probably still have rotary phones and typewriters. Younger listeners have gone to ITunes and more and more people are listening to Internet radio. Their audience is shrinking...especially on the antiquated AM band...and in time this audience will die off and there won't be much of an audience to replace it. In this case, the free market is winning as conventional radio has gone bust...many companies are in bankruptcy...our public airwaves are facing foreclosure.

Let's take a breath here and see how this plays out.

[8 track mind]

5. Pirate radio is all we are going to have left

Every year there are more and more reports of pirate station activity. All sorts of people still listen to the radio. maybe it would be a good idea to buy up a station along the border in Mexico and bring back the days of XEA/XER/XERF