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 Documentation of right-wing media in video, audio and text.
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.
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.
Streaming Radio Guide Hellishly long (5795!) list of radio streaming, steaming on the Internets.
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 Maddow Blog Here's the hyper-interactive La Raych of MSNBC. daily show-vids, freakishly geeky research, 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.
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.
After a long, disgraceful, reckless, yet lucrative run at Fox News, emo-rad Glenn Beck signs off for the last time from Fox News today. In his say-anything-to-get-his-name-in-the-papers strategy, he managed to even offend the gargoyles at FNS: Roger Aisles and Rupert Murdoch. That's saying something.
It also says something that a progressive boycott was responsible for driving 300 advertisers from his show, and that his show, while successful in cable terms, was leaking viewers on a daily, weekly basis. He lost up to 2 million viewers in the last year and a half.
It all began to slide when he called President Obama a "racist" saying the president doesn't like "white people." That was a bridge too far - even for Fox News who trades in devisive race and liberal baiting every day.
Editorial: Eight myths to chill an old-school Republican soul
It's sad to see what has happened to the Party of Lincoln, and for that matter, the party of lesser mortals like George H.W. Bush of Texas, Bob Dole of Kansas and Jack Danforth of Missouri. No one ever would mistake them for liberals, but they were statesmen who put country before party.
Today we have the spectacle of smart, patriotic men and women putting their brains and integrity on ice to please a party dominated by anti-intellectual social Darwinists and the plutocrats who finance and mislead them.
Consider the mythology that makes up GOP orthodoxy today. Imagine the contortions that cramp the brains and souls of men and women of intelligence and compassion who seek state and national office under the Republican banner.
• They must believe, despite the evidence of the 2008 financial collapse, that unregulated — or at most, lightly regulated — financial markets are good for America and the world.
• They must believe in the brilliantly cast conceit known as the "pro-growth agenda," in which economic growth can be attained only by reducing corporate and individual tax rates, especially among the investor class, and by freeing business from environmental rules that have cleaned up America's air and water and labor regulations that helped create America's middle class.
• Though rising health care costs are pillaging the economy, and even though health care in America is now a matter of what you can afford, Republican candidates for office must deny that health care is a basic right and resist a real attempt to change and improve the system.
• GOP candidates must scoff at scientific consensus about global warming. Blame it on human activity? Bad. Cite Noah's Ark as evidence? Good. They must express at least some doubt about the science of evolution.
• They must insist, statistics and evidence to the contrary, that most of the nation's energy needs can be met safely with more domestic oil drilling, "clean-coal" technology and greater reliance on perfectly safe nuclear power plants.
• They must believe that all 11.2 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States can be rounded up, detained, tried, repatriated and kept from returning at a reasonable cost.
• Even though there are more than four unemployed persons for every available job, GOP candidates should at least hint that unemployment benefits keep people from seeking jobs.
• They must believe that the Founding Fathers wanted to guarantee individuals the absolute right to own high-capacity, rapid-fire weapons that did not exist in the late 18th century.
By no means is this list complete. It almost makes you feel sorry for the people who pretend to believe this stuff. Almost.
Recorded in the early '90's (before his ill-fated MSNBC teevee show) this is from back when Rush was barely tipping 285, and could still sit on a bar stool without falling off Dumpty-style.
He spills the beans on how talk radio hooks the dittoheads: "The formula for making you, the viewer, the listener mad, hasn't changed a bit and yet people keep falling for it." (BlatherWatch's Michael Hood, BTW, is the guy in the tux on the right).
As a revolution, it might be a little tepid, but it's a revolution nonetheless.
So far, le petit stink the Cliff Mass firing last month has only inspired creation of a couple of Facebook pages against KUOW and it's marquis morning show, Weekday with Steve Scher.
BlatherWatch has skittered bravely along the ragged edges of our blessed First Amendment, but we ain't shit compared to Antonio Vargas, 30, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist who came out this week as an undocumented immigrant in a detailed story to be published on Sunday in a New York Times Magazine piece. His attorneys told him it was a "legal suicide." His grandmother wept. He's transformed from journalist to activist. Listen to Michelle Norris' NPR interview.
We stick by our post and the reasons we posted it.
We'd just endured two days of Dori Monson (KIRO m-f, 12-3p) insouciantly calling a 51-year-old man who'd married a 16-year-old girl, a child molester and a "perv." He used that catch-all descriptor, "creepy" a lot. (despite his own well-established creep-factor).
Had this guy been arrested and charged for that vile crime?
Au contraire: he had legally and with the permission of her parents married the girl according to good Christian principles.. (you know: He did the right thing, made an honest woman of her, even married her in a church).
And neither is Jennifer Hoff whose daughter Layla, 16, is one of "Dori's girls" at Shorecrest High School high where he coaches girls' basketball.
Layla says "Mr. Monson is a creepy little man and I don't like the way he looks at me."
(photo: KING5)
Her mother told BlatherWatch that Monson (KIROFM m-f, 12-3p) seems to be fixated on Layla's large breasts. "Can't keep his eyes off 'em," she says. "He's a creepy child molester in my eyes."
Large breasts seem to be recquisite to being one of "Dori's girls."
Actually Ken quit, and rather abruptly at that. It took the powers that be (and the powers that aren't) quite by surprise when he did so.
We talked to the mildly outraged Ken recently and he's amused at the recent Cliff Mass Kerfuffle. "He always was a pompous blowhard," he says, "a little man with a big ego."
Vincent left KUOW in 2007 after 23 years at the station during which he did about everything there is to do over there: announcer, news editor, and engineer. Among other things, he was the very sound of KUOW day time with his mastery of the KUOW music archives providing the perfect bumper music to match whatever the topic at hand- and that's saying something -as we wrote at the time: "considering the broad, and arcane subject matter that is local public radio fare."
He quit over the embarrassing wages paid by the station:
"It's pathetic that KUOW management won't pay it's award-winning, nationally acclaimed airstaff -- who've made it the top radio station in our market -- anything better than industry-median salaries while it socks millions of airstaff-raised dollars into reserve accounts."
He recommends KUOW join Seattle's other public radio station, KPLU, and organize into a union shop.
"It seems the only way left to deal with management that will no longer even acknowledge staff concerns, let alone consider them."
Public radio broadcasters seem to stay around- for life, it'd seem- so when one leaves, it's more like a death than mere disruption of a daily listening regime.
Losing Ken Vincent is [more] like a messy divorce rather than one of those cold-blooded corporate separations the likes of which we just witnessed at KIRO.
KUOW circled the wagons, and forbade employees talk to news media (particularly BlatherWatch).
This was a she-bang much larger than the Cliff Mass kerfuffle, and it blew over rather quickly once Ken was off the air. We suspect the Mass's day is done as well
Ken moved to the Palm Springs area, and never worked in public radio again. He's now happily ensconced at RR Broadcasting where he reports, writes, produces & anchors news on KPSI-AM conservative newstalk; mixed music KPSI-FM; oldies KDES ; and progressive newstalk KPTR-AM.
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 & Luke Burbank, Dori Monson, Ron & Don, Frank Shiers, Bill Radke, Linda Thomas, Tony Miner and George Noory.
KUOW FM 94.9 Seattle's foremost public radio news and talk.
KVI am 570 KHz Visit the burnt-out husk of one of the seminal right-wing talkers in all the land. Here's where once trilled the reactionary tones of Rush Limbaugh, John Carlson, Kirby Wilbur, Mike Siegel, Peter Weissbach, Floyd Brown, Dinky Donkey, and Bryan Suits.
Now it's Top 40 hits from the '60's & '70's aimed at that diminishing crowd who still remembers them and can still hear.
KTTH am 770 KHz Right wing home of local, and a whole bunch of syndicated righties such as Glennn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Medved, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Lars Larsony, and for an hour a day: live & local David Boze.
KPTK am 1090 KHz Syndicated liberal talk. Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, Ed Schultz, Randi Rhodes, Norman Goldman fill in the large hole to the left on Northwest radio dial.
KLFE AM 1590 kHz Syndicated right-wing 2nd stringers like Mark Levin, Bill Bennett, Mike Gallagher, Dennis Prager, Dennis Miller and Hugh Hewitt inhabit this timid-voiced neighbor honker for your radio enjoyment (unless you're behind something large like Costco).
KOMOAM News, traffic, Ken Schram and John Carlson.
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