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Dori monson charges mayor nickels with murder

Dori Monson (KIROFM m-f 12-3p) blames Mayor Greg Nickels and politically-correct Seattleites for the cold blooded, assassination-style Halloween murder of Seattle policeman, Timothy Brenton.

Election night, 2009: liberals- 3; talk radio- 0

Liberals had a good night in Washington.

(photo: Dow Constantine)

Once again, it’s plain that despite the bluster, the blather, and hours of blatant advocacy, conservative talk radio KIROFM, KTTH, and KVI are origami tigers when it comes to delivering votes for conservative candidates, and conservative candidates.

Talk radio mao-maos obama

It's hard to believe that anyone believes that red-baiting would work in 2009, but talk radio and Fox News blabbertalent keep hammering away on administration officials who might have quoted Mao at some time in their careers.

(Chairman Mao, Andy Warhol)

Glenn beck: volunteerism is an obamunist plot!

(We're fighting an old computer while buying a new one- the object of our recent fund raising drive. Until our new equipment's in place, we'll be blogging a little light).

There's a Fall teevee campaign to encourage volunteerism that's sponsored by the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), a Hollywood charitable organization. They'll be running positive messages about community service and civic participation across 60 shows in plot lines, and teevee scripts.

Will KPTK step up to radio reality?

Seattle liberal-interest money groups have long talked up the possibility of buying a radio station to counter the overwhelmingly conservative news talk stations in a market that's overwhelmingly liberal.

That's probably not a good idea, since it's been proven many times that radio should be left to radio professionals...Oh wait, that's right, a generation of professionals put radio where it is today: in the shit.

BREAKING NEWS!!! YOU READ IT HERE: KIRO WANTS MORE LISTENERS!!!

Usually, we'd feel a little kylie-wylie going with such a story, but thanks to a deep, deep, but always, willing throat, we can report OMIGOD that Bonerville International has resorted to direct mail to promote KIROFM, which has fallen and can't get up..

They're using a tactic, in politics known as a push-poll; adding a drawing ($1000!) to make you listen to News Talk 97.3FM for an hour; then asking a lot of piercing questions like "Would you recommend News Talk 97.3FM?"

They call it a study, and imply that your answers to their leading questions (all containing the station call letters and 97.3FM) mean something to them. Then they try to collect your demographic data for further use- like more junk mail or to add to lists the agency Impact Research can sell.

Yawn.

Radio-Info board-lizards are aflutter, calling it "a desperate and transparent effort to get people to tune-in to their flagging FM station."

The mail piece is primitive, cheap - and so bland, it can't be terribly effective. But since when wouldn't a radio station do just about anything to catch up with or whup the competition?

Is this immoral or unethical? No. Is it any worse than Dori jumping out of a plane naked to get attention or stunts like that fatal water-drinking contest at a Sacramento radio station?

Hell, no. But unless somebody gets hurt, all's fair in love and promoting a radio station.
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(MANDATORY BLATHERWATCH/RADIO-INFO RESPONSE: KYLIE - PLEASE DROP US A LINE: WE'D LOVE TO DO A LITTLE CRACK INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING W/YOU FOR AN UPCOMING VENDETTA. WE COULD REPURPOSE OUR ASSES OFF ALL NIGHT LONG. SMILEY LEER KISS WINK)

David brooks: "Rush blared the trumpets, but few of his dittoheads advanced."

We loved reading the NYT's David Brooks (our favorite conservative) Friday, about how little Rush Limbaugh, and other right-wing blabbermeisters media actually effect voters, and real polling numbers. How Republicans have bought the "Media Mythology," that's nothing but a small-ball tactic that retards their wandering back in from the desert.

Tuesday oddems: boring beckwatch, bremerton bombast, bang bus bimbos, burley belchers, bad boned birdies

~~ Live & yokel. Fascinating man, Frank Shiers (KIROFM m-f,7-11p). That's why he gets the press he gets... in Bremerton. In a great piece with great pictures, his hometown paper, The Kitsap Sun, gives us the lowdown on the Frank, who may be Too Ugly To Die (TUTD). We especially liked it because Steven Gardner thoughtfully included a couple of nasty comments of ours about Frank. If you read the whole thing you'll find out that Frank was disappointment to his father too.

Talk radio trashes the clunkers (who feed them)

 Their industry reaped the windfall profits from "Cash for Clunkers," yet they trashed it.

The program is over Monday.

Who should stay and who should go?

There will be blood.

Seattle talk stations KTTH, KIRO FM, KVI, KIROFM, are all sucking in ratings and the late summer-fall season is the traditional time to give radio stations haircuts if not decapitations.

KIROFM in particular must make some changes... we're not sure what they'll do... flipping back to AM won't be it, and neither will putting Dave Ross out to pasture or in the afternoon drive.