Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Featured Blog: Liberal Talk Radio (LTR)


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I'm a fan of liberal talk radio, particularly The Stephanie Miller Show, The Randi Rhodes Show, and The Rachel Maddow Show. Listening to these programs provides many of the ideas, and "news-behind-the-news" items for this blog. And the blog LTR gives a little behind the scenes information on talk radio itself.

Being that this is the beginning of the year, LTR has a year's end list of "things we've learned," and I thought it was well worth sharing. Check it out.

[Excerpt]

Top 10 lessons we learned in 2007

. . .4. Don't go out of your way to be funny if your programming is already a joke.

FOX News is taken seriously only by those already drinking the Flavorade. Lots of screaming and yelling, wrong facts, errors, fluffy news and ridiculous posturing by on-air hosts have made the 'fair and balanced' network a bit of a joke. So why did they go out of their way to do a right-wing knockoff of "The Daily Show" when the rest of their on-air lineup is a parody in itself?

Read more at: LTR

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