re: #485 freetoken

Today I was out and about in one of my very rare forays in an automobile (taking care of business that I can’t on foot) around town, and while on the road I turned on the radio to take the temperature, so to speak.

The afternoon talkers were frothing. Rodger Hedgecock of course doing his uber-Limbaugh-esque hyperventilating about how the left has spun the assassinations, Savage was incoherent as usual, John and Ken (KFI) were off railing against our new governor for proposing extending an expiring tax in order to balance the budget (which has to be balanced), and a local talker was beating up on Sheriff Dupnick.

What a mess.

I wonder how we, as a society, got into this situation, where AM Radio == hate radio. I know that the shock-jocks of a couple of decades ago did what they did to push the FCC envelope and through their novelty attract listeners. Yet today we have people who claim to want to be taken seriously spouting nothing but crafted dog-whistles, designed to stir up animosity. That’s a long ways from the shock-jocks trying to get “f*ck” on the air, or broadcasting a woman having an orgasm.

Anyway, fortunately I carry with me some custom made CDs of music that quickly take the place of AM radio.

The antidote for bad talk radio is Phil Hendrie: philhendrieshow.com

who’s basically satirizing the very phenomenon, and doing it so well all the shows he satirizes…are infatuated with him :D