I don't. I blame the Knights of the Five-Sided Castle.
I do, however, blame progressives for completely failing to grok what the passing of the Fairness Doctrine meant and refusing to take up the long and the short and go to battle with the Wingnuts when it became clear what they were going to do with talk radio.
I remember back in 1988— 1988, fergawdzakes!— trying to get my lefty friends to pay attention to what Rush Limbaugh was doing and take seriously the threat his style of talk radio posed. It was more than ten years before I could get anyone to listen to me without laughing.
Being able to say "I told you so" is cold comfort.
It's not just that talk radio is right-wing and I'm not. Talk radio by its very nature is angry, self-justifying, ignorant, and hectoring. It's all about having your prejudices confirmed by some pissed-off person who is willing to bend the truth and happy to abuse the people you don't like. Everything about it makes me depressed.
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Date: 2006-01-26 05:29 am (UTC)I do, however, blame progressives for completely failing to grok what the passing of the Fairness Doctrine meant and refusing to take up the long and the short and go to battle with the Wingnuts when it became clear what they were going to do with talk radio.
I remember back in 1988— 1988, fergawdzakes!— trying to get my lefty friends to pay attention to what Rush Limbaugh was doing and take seriously the threat his style of talk radio posed. It was more than ten years before I could get anyone to listen to me without laughing.
Being able to say "I told you so" is cold comfort.
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Date: 2006-01-26 06:06 am (UTC)Loud, stupid, and chauvinistic: pick 3.
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