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	<title>Comments on: 1470AM to offer &#8216;better class of talk radio&#8217;</title>
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		<title>By: Ron Gerwin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ron Gerwin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>God help us!  Rationally UNdependent talk radio.  There&#039;s always NPR for the intellectually dependent.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>God help us!  Rationally UNdependent talk radio.  There&#8217;s always NPR for the intellectually dependent.</p>
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		<title>By: Mike Schwab</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike Schwab</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mark Levin and John Batchelor?   &quot;Unbiased&quot; content?  
That&#039;s rich.  

Cumulus and Clear Channel talk properties are in fact,
unbashedly and wholly biased  Both effectively serve
not the public interest, but rather, the function of
advancing a very specific political agenda.  

Deregulation has allowed for a media monopoly game 
wherein a select few monolithic corporations have majority ownership in every radio market in the nation.

In turn, listeners are unwittingly and without alternative,
fed a daily diet of slanted editorial content cloaked as
&#039;entertainment.&quot;  The beauty is, it&#039;s all presented free of 
any obligation to offer opposing viewpoints...and free of
any competitive alternative media choices where such 
viewpoints could be heard.

That&#039;s called having a pretty powerful national platform
and mouthpiece.  In effect, it also collectively acts as a
form of &#039;free advertising&#039; for a singular point of view. 

In the absence of such pesky annoyances as the 
Fairness Doctrine, this is a mighty media landscape 
that would make even Joe Goebbels proud, not that
anyone knows who he was. (well, at least we still
have an uncensored internet so you can Google
him).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mark Levin and John Batchelor?   &#8220;Unbiased&#8221; content?<br />
That&#8217;s rich.  </p>
<p>Cumulus and Clear Channel talk properties are in fact,<br />
unbashedly and wholly biased  Both effectively serve<br />
not the public interest, but rather, the function of<br />
advancing a very specific political agenda.  </p>
<p>Deregulation has allowed for a media monopoly game<br />
wherein a select few monolithic corporations have majority ownership in every radio market in the nation.</p>
<p>In turn, listeners are unwittingly and without alternative,<br />
fed a daily diet of slanted editorial content cloaked as<br />
&#8216;entertainment.&#8221;  The beauty is, it&#8217;s all presented free of<br />
any obligation to offer opposing viewpoints&#8230;and free of<br />
any competitive alternative media choices where such<br />
viewpoints could be heard.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s called having a pretty powerful national platform<br />
and mouthpiece.  In effect, it also collectively acts as a<br />
form of &#8216;free advertising&#8217; for a singular point of view. </p>
<p>In the absence of such pesky annoyances as the<br />
Fairness Doctrine, this is a mighty media landscape<br />
that would make even Joe Goebbels proud, not that<br />
anyone knows who he was. (well, at least we still<br />
have an uncensored internet so you can Google<br />
him).</p>
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