2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How can thoughtful people even *consider* Hillary for President? [View all]certainot
(9,090 posts)yeah, pretty much all about talk radio to me....
i think until free easy internet is fairly ubiquitous and in cars they still have an advantage.
i think it has to be challenged directly with monitoring of the top 50 or so blowhards, recording them, and transcribing enough to search regularly to look for patterns that can be indexed for general use. automation of that process with for eg snowtape and dragon dictate etc, to make it easier for a democratic state HQ to keep track of and respond to state republican candidates and surrogates on the radio, as well as progressive orgs and media entities, could probably be very useful.
people don't want to hear the lying scumbags, which is the perfect defense, but i think they would gladly like to know what's going on there in some readable form.
someone could make a salary doing that i suspect, but i don't know software.
i recently estimated talk radio is worth at least 4bil$ a year free advertising for republicans. 52x5daysx15 hrs/dayx1000 radio stationsx$1000/hr advertising.
democracy can't work with that going on if the left is ignoring it.
more directly, protests at radio stations when they attack and lie about dem candidates, and the 90 universities that endorse them.
if you have any suggestions.....