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July 20, 2004

Talk Radio-Who Cares?

Al Franken beat Bill O'Reilly in the NYC radio ratings. Why am I not surprised? I'd rather listen to Al Franken than Bill O'Reilly....and I loathe Al Franken. Rush reportedly had more listeners than those two combined. Big deal. If I had to pick between the three, I'd pick Rush too.

But frankly my dear, I wouldn't give you a plug nickel for the lot of them at a Buy Two, Get One Free Sale.

There's just something about talk radio that brings out the ass in people. Look at Howard Stern. He used to be reasonably interesting. But I stopped listening to him when he started to self-destruct after his wife left him. Now he's about as interesting as any other pathetic old raincoated bum that hangs out in the red light district peep shows. Which is to say not interesting at all.

And Dr. Laura just scares me. She's as frightening as some of those 'kill yer neighbor' freaks that have local talk radio shows around here.

Maybe it's just where we live, but it's slim pickin's for all radio, not just talk radio. Clear Channel owns most of the stations except for a couple of independent Spanish ones. And Clear Channel stations seem to follow the same format: All crap. All the time.

Which is why on the rare occasions that I do listen to the radio, I usually end up on one of the Spanish stations.

"Musica de la musica! Musica de la Rrrrrolling Stones!"

And if you remember where that's from, you're as old as me.

Maybe even older.

Posted by Rita at July 20, 2004 08:24 PM

Comments

Posted by: Craig at July 21, 2004 07:15 AM