Evergreen Politics Northwest regional politics and issues thoughtfully and provokingly written
Talker's Magazine The quirky talk radio trade mag. Check the Talk Radio Research Project- it's not very scientific, but places on the top 15 talkers list (scroll down to Talk Radio Audiences By Size)) are as hotly contested as Emmys (and mean just about as much).
The Advocate No, not THAT Advocate... it's the Northwest Progressive Institute's Official Blog.
Media Matters David Brock tirelessly exposes right-wing obfuscation in media.
Pacific NW Portal An ambitious blog of blogs for the progressive Pacific Northwest plus news and weather.
Orcinus home of David Neiwert, freelance investigative journalist and author who writes extensively about far-right hate groups
Hominid Views "People, politics, science, and whatnot"
Darryl is a statistician who fights imperialism with empiricism, gives good links and wry commentary.
artistdogboy He's neither a dog nor a boy, but an artist he is and an island of iconclasm on an island of iconoclasts.
Jesus' General An 11 on the Manly Scale of Absolute Gender, a 12 on the Heavenly Scale of the 10 Commandments and a 6 on the earthly scale of the Immaculately Groomed.
Howie in Seattle Howie Martin is the Abe Linkin' of progressive Seattle.
LTR (Liberal Talk Radio) Invaluable national insider news and resources for devotees of our favorite medium.
Meet The Stress Chic chicanery by Mercifurious, relentless commentator on culture, politics, the Styblehead, and the end times. (Kitty Repellent Not Provided)
Streaming Radio Guide Hellishly long (5795!) list of radio streaming, steaming on the Internets.
The Rusted Eye Artful linking, artfully narrated by our artful friend and Detroit movie critic, Jeph Meyers. Hardly anything, ever, here about talk radio, yet this site is as oddly compelling as Mr. Meyers himself.
The Naked Loon News satire -- The Onion in the Seattle petunia patch.
Irrational Public Radio "informs, challenges, soothes and/or berates, and does so with a pleasing vocal cadence and unmatched enunciation. When you listen to IPR, integrity washes over you like lava, with the pleasing familiarity of a medium-roast coffee and a sensible muffin."
The Rachel Maddow Show Here's the hyper-interactive La Raych of MSNBC. videos, podcasts, transcripts, and classy graphics.
Northwest Broadcasters The AM, FM, TV and digital broadcasters of Northwest Washington, USA and Southwest British Columbia, Canada. From Kelso, WA to the northern tip of Vancouver Island, BC - call letters, formats, slogans, networks, technical data, and transmitter maps.
Plus "recent" news.
News Corpse The Internet's chronicle of media decay.
STEVE YOUNG ON POLITICS Steve Young covers our beat in the prone position and with one hand tied behind his back. We wish we were Steve Young.
The Moderate Voice The voice of reason in the age of Obama, and the politics of the far-middle.
News Hounds Dogged dogging of Fox News by a team who seems to watch every minute of the cable channel so you don't have to.
HistoryLink Fun to read and free encyclopedia of Washington State history. Founded by the late Walt Crowley, it's an indispensable tool and entertainment source for history wonks and surfers alike.
right-wing blogs we like
The Reagan Wing Hearin lies the real heart of Washington State Republicans. Doug Parris runs this red-meat social conservative group site which bars no holds when it comes to saying who they are and who they're not; what they believe and what they don't; who their friends are and where the rest of the Republicans can go. Well-written, and flaming.
Orbusmax inexhaustible Drudgery of NW conservative news
The Radio Equalizer prolific former Seattle KVI, KIRO talk host speaks authoritatively about radio.
Conservative talk radio was invented in Seattle, now it’s as endangered as the wild Puget Sound salmon. and let’s face it, save Dave Ross, there ain’t no local liberal talk.
With the KVI’s elimination of Kirby Wilbur, another block of local airtime went to out-of-town, out-of-touch, syndicated blabbermeisters- sending a butt-load of ad $ somewhere else.
Latino activists are declaring victory tonight as fatuous xenophobe Lou Dobbs (KKOL m-f, 6-8p) announced he’s leaving CNN, a company he helped found. After 30 years, the network allowed him to be released early from his contract- his last show was tonight. Dobbs will keep his radio show which has nothing to do with CNN.
Dobbs’ senile, anti-Hispanic, birther ramblings have embarrassed the cable network which is prides itself on maintaining some semblance of objectivity and a long record of racial fairness.
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.
Linda Thomas, the honey-voiced KIROFM fill-in newsie whose work we've often admired, wrote a happy-face reader blog post about Seattle conservative talk radio host at Seattlepi.com
(photo: dittohead in "listening position.")
Her blog, News Chick is not journalism but rather for branding purposes and to promote her radio work. The self-promotion here, is in the form of a breezy, well-written, journalistic feature.
A glorious Cinco de Mayo to you. It's a great day because it's a Mexican holiday marked by the drinking of tequila cocktails but marred by that it's another day that WTKK in Boston has not fired their violence-stoking white supremacist talk host Jay Severin.
Dennis Miller, the former SNL comedian, sports caster turned libertarian, security conservative radio talk host and will take over KVI's 9 ta noon slot in early February. He left the Seattle market when KKOL flipped to business talk early this month.
The KVI slot is now filled with Dr. Laura Schlessinger who tells young women and gay men why they shouldn't sleep with their boyfriends. She tersely supports wives who are having trouble serving and servicing their husbands on demand as, she believes, is their Biblical role. (Laura's never lasted long in this market, though she's tried many times).
Joe Gandelman is the editor at The Moderate Voice, a wry and respected independent political blog. Last week he drove up the California coast where the radio choices are none but right-wing talk.
He writes: "... unless you’re a Republican partisan, this week conservative talk radio seemed infiltrated by Democratic Party moles doing caricatured, extremist off-the-wall broadcasts guaranteed to convince independent voters listening in to vote for Democrats." You think the rhetoric, verbal extremism and unbottled rage displayed at Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s recent rallies is something?"
Sarah Palin, our "normal Joe six-pack
American finally represented in the position of vice presidency" of the United States -- just a lentigo maligna
away from the presidency if the guy with 3 relapses of melanoma is elected -- was on the Hugh Hewitt Show Tuesday (KKOL m-f, 3-6p).
We were going to fisk this, but we decided it stood on its own, doncha know... Here's the transcript:
KIROFM 97.3 Multi-format: news and nearly all local talk. This is where classic KIRO AM news talk radio went... hopefully, not to die. The home of Dave Ross, Dori Monson, Ron & Don, Luke Burbank, Tony Miner, and Tom Douglas.
KUOW FM 94.9 Seattle's foremost public radio news and talk.
KVI am 570 KHz Conservative talk: Except for Kirby Wilbur in the morning, this is syndicated right-wing such as Dennis Miller, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, George Noory.
KTTH am 770 KHz Right wing home of local talker David Boze: and a whole bunch of syndicated righties such as Glennn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Medved, Michael Savage, Lars Larsony.
KPTK am 1090 KHz Syndicated liberal talk. Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, Ed Schultz, Randi Rhodes, Lionel and more fill in the large hole to the left on Northwest radio dial.
KGNW am 820 kHz Christian talk with occasional politics. Dr. James Dobson.
KOMOAM News, traffic, and and John Carlson & Ken Schram's "The Commentators."
Joe Gandelman is the editor at The Moderate Voice, a wry and respected independent political blog. Last week he drove up the California coast where the radio choices are none but right-wing talk. 
Sarah Palin, our "normal Joe six-pack
American finally represented in the position of vice presidency" of the United States -- just a lentigo maligna
away from the presidency if the guy with 3 relapses of melanoma is elected -- was on the Hugh Hewitt Show Tuesday (KKOL m-f, 3-6p). 
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