[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: Those than Can, Do

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
Those than Can, Do
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1183267356.shtml


   Some premises:

     "A man's got to know his limitations." -- Dirty Harry in Magnum
     Force.
     "Free speech is unfair to intellectual losers." -- [1]James Lewis
     at [2]The American Thinker.
     "Every lefty jock ever offered up to the audience has
     [ingurgitated] donkey [anatomy]." -- [3]Learned Foot

   Only the "Fairness Doctrine" can restore the "needed" balance in talk
   radio we're told. We're not getting our Adult Minimum Requirement of
   "Progressive" thought because the radio station owners won't allow it.
   No, what's not allowed is any introspection, as in "maybe we're just
   not cut out for this." Let's illustrate the concept from the
   Conservative viewpoint.
   The newspaper business has two general characteristics: it is a
   monopoly in most markets and almost everyone one of them is plainly
   liberal. The latter has been documented many times; the proof is
   massive and irrefutable. This is hardly unexpected given that we also
   know that the newsroom staffs vote Democrat and contribute to left
   wing causes close to 90 percent of the time.
   We Conservatives like to whine and wish for a conservative competitor
   in these markets. We thought the St. Paul Pioneer Press would consider
   the business case for no longer following the Minneapolis Star Tribune
   model, which insults fully half of its potential readership almost
   daily. But it didn't. Neither do we see any upstart conservative
   papers anywhere in the country.
   There are no obvious business or regulatory reasons for this. We may
   just have to accept the empirical fact that for newspapers, we
   Conservatives are the ones who "(what Learned Foot said)." We have to
   know our limitations. It's not fair, but we're losers when in comes to
   daily newspaper publishing.
   Liberals in turn have to admit that right or wrong, they just aren't
   any good at commercial talk radio. There is bandwidth available as I
   blogged yesterday. There are stations available. They've had any
   number of bites at the apple, but the public just isn't buying it.
   Even the Fairness Doctrine won't save them, because the probable
   result is that there won't be any talk radio. The absence of
   Conservative talk isn't going to make Liberal talk any more appealing.

References

   1. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/06/free_speech_is_unfair_to_loser.html
   2. http://www.americanthinker.com/
   3. http://koolaidreport.blogspot.com/2007/06/why-do-liberals-continue-to-hate-free.html