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In reply to the discussion: Why American and Britain are Self-Destructing [View all]certainot
(9,090 posts)station in the area, where people can get news sports and weather with a clear signal so they get basic advertising that way to pay rent
stop rush etc and anyone who calls those advertisers knows a lot of the adverstisers don't or can't defend their ads on those stations, aaa lot didn't know how noxious the message was they were beign associated with, a lot of them believe the ad execs explanation it's just political entertainment, and a lot of them will explain they were trying to save money so they give up some control about where they go.
it would not take much activism, as in protesting some of the 87 universities that keep lmbaugh going, to convince the ad industry that artificial intelligence makes it so easy cheap and fast to transcribe talk radio shows anywhere in the world and associate those businesses directly with content that they will have to start asking those businesses if they really want to support the hate and lies.
the whole thing will collapse and market forces will destroy it, opening up stations for other talk.
as for subsidizing it, i wouldn't be surprised if some of those russian oligarchs got in there to help out. there were times that the recently capitalist russia was seen as model of free market capitalism so they were getting praise that way so guys like lev and igor and butina could really make headway