Keeping right-wing drivel on the air
Jul. 25th, 2010 08:29 pmWell, on my way home this morning, I punched up a certain radio station and couldn't hear it. When I tried to dial up the transmitter I got a busy signal, so I called the operations manager, who told me he thought everything was OK with it. I persuaded him to turn on a radio, and the station wasn't there. He went to the site, found the transmitter shut down, and couldn't turn it on. So, I drove down there, but when I got there it had magically come on all by itself, however there was no audio. I fiddled with various things until I got the audio back... which turned out to be a right-wing talk show (is there any other kind?). Someone named Phil was whining about NPR and CNN being infested with "leftists" and "socialists" who want the government to shut down Fox News.
What we need to do, I think, is set up a rival radio network with an avowedly Marxist perspective... not so much because Marx is any shining beacon of truth, but to give listeners a taste of real socialism. If there were a real left represented on the airwaves, Phil and his clones would no longer be able as to paint liberals and centrists as "socialist".
Of course, there's no money.
What we need to do, I think, is set up a rival radio network with an avowedly Marxist perspective... not so much because Marx is any shining beacon of truth, but to give listeners a taste of real socialism. If there were a real left represented on the airwaves, Phil and his clones would no longer be able as to paint liberals and centrists as "socialist".
Of course, there's no money.