Re: WOTW Nashua NH Sold

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Dan's got a point...Mo Rocca is a funny dude.  Expanding on that a little, I think all of the correspondents of "The Daily Show" are entertaining as hell.  Jon Stewart has repeatedly tried to play up that TDS skewers liberals and conservatives alike, but I think there's no question the show has more of a liberal leaning than a conservative one, mostly because conservatism tends to be more black & white (in a really general sense) and therefore it's easier to take it to an extreme and be funny.

Plus there's that whole liberal media bias thing, right?  :-)

**BUT** one thing I don't think any of TDS people would be good at is talk show hosts.  Maybe as a panel, a la "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn", but on their own I don't think you'd play to their strengths very well and it would show, very badly.  If you listen to WWDTM and TDS you'll notice their greatest lines are zingers.  That's fine for a group of people doing four or five minutes on a topic, but it's not gonna work for an hour-long talk show and one host.






> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan.Strassberg@att.net [mailto:Dan.Strassberg@att.net]
> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 12:05 PM
> To: 'Sid Schweiger'
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: WOTW Nashua NH Sold
> 
> Are you trying to say that Hannity is entertaining? Puh-leez. All he is is 
> strident and venomous.
> 
> And are you trying to say that there aren't liberals who could be entertaining 
> as talk hosts? There must be a dozen comedians who are politically liberal and 
> could become entertaining talk hosts. One is Al Franken. Another--probably--is 
> Moe Rocca--although I don't really know where he stands politically. In fact, 
> most any of the regular panelits on NPR's wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me could 
> probably become enteratining talk hosts. Most of the WW...DTM panelists seem to 
> have a liberal bent.
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> > >>With the name of the group and with Shaheen involved, it sounds to me like 
> > they plan for the station to have a different political point of view to
> > provide "balance" to what is on the radio.<<
> > 
> > ...and if that's true, in doing so they will completely miss the point.
> > 
> > Conservatives do well on talk radio because they're for the most part 
> > entertaining.  Liberals don't do well, because they're not.  It's as simple as 
> > that.  Just putting liberals on the air won't do it.
> > 
> > Sid Schweiger
> > MIS Manager, Entercom Boston LLC
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