Why Talk Radio is largely conservative - (Was: Howie Carr, etc. etc. etc)

[Paul Hopfgarten]

I think everyone would have to agree that their own biases color how they
perceive the media as a whole.

-Paul Hopfgarten
-Derry NH


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[mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of
Donna Halper
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 5:20 PM
To: Steve Cloutier; boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
Subject: Re: Why Talk Radio is largely conservative - (Was: Howie Carr,etc.
etc. etc)

At 04:41 PM 7/21/2008, Steve Cloutier wrote:

>There is already plenty of left wing and left of center stuff on the 
>air - NPR (very left most of the time), the major network news (left 
>left left), and most newspapers.

Say what?  Okay fine, let's not permit this to deteriorate into a 
political discussion, which always ends badly, but Steve, survey 
after survey shows it is a MYTH (and a right-wing talking point) that 
the media are liberal.  The media are corporate, and they follow 
whatever stories they think will make them some money.  Can you blame 
them for that?  Yes, there are some left-leaning publications, but to 
say the entire media-- including newspapers-- is liberal is not 
factual.  Believe what you will, but when 95% of all talk shows are 
conservative/Republican, and most editorial pages of newspapers have 
an equal number of conservative and liberal opinion columnists, I 
fail to see your point.  (Oh and more than 40% of NPR listeners are 
identifiably Republican, btw.)