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.
Just look at Obama's job approval rating. It has remained essentially unchanged for the last 18 months. Think about that. Palin and Limbaugh and Glenn Beck have thrown the kitchen sink, the bathroom sink and the basement sink at Obama with their he's-trying-to-destroy-America shtick for going on two years now. And the collective public response? A shrug of the shoulders.
Bet Rush's new obsession: that Michelle Obama is fat and eats junk food despite her campaign against obesity won't be doing Republicans any good with independent voters, either.
OK, maybe it's more accurate to say: Medved sneaked up on the Big Guy and kicked him in the knee.
"I love Rush," Medved told CNN's Howard Kurtz, "I'm grateful to him and I admire him greatly, but it's a terrible mistake to say on the air again and again, that this [the bad economy] is on purpose, because what happens if the economy does turn around? Will that be on purpose too?"
FCC Chair Julius Genachowski testified in 2009 he wasn’t going to revive it. And he hasn't.
Candidate Obama was against bringing it back; President Obama has never proposed a revival.
Nancy Pelosi didn't bring it up when she had the power, neither has Leader Harry Reid.
We speak, of course, of the Fairness Doctrine, an FCC policy which required access to broadcast stations of opposing views, and discussion of controversial issues.
Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images; AP Photo
“There are a lot of program directors whose radio ‘spider-sense’ is tingling ... They're thinking ‘this conservative thing is kind of running its course. We're saying the same things from morning 'til night and yes, we've got a very loyal core audience—but if we ever want to grow, if we want to expand, we've got to be doing more than 18 hours a day of ‘Obama is a socialist.’” ~~ Randall Bloomquist, a long-time radio executive and president of Talk Frontier Media.
Is political talk radio dying off like last year's nasturtiums?
If you want to hear Glenn Beck's violent, paranoid rants, tune in every weekday from 6 am to 9 am on Seattle's KTTH AM 770 — or the 8 other radio stations in Washington that broadcast Beck.
Maybe that's one of the places that Charlie Wilson, who was arrested last year for making death threats to Sen. Patty Murray, heard Beck. Wilson's family credits Beck's rhetoric as being the driving force behind Wilson's actions.1
Beck's radio show is dangerous, inflammatory and irresponsible. And it doesn't belong on Seattle's airwaves.
Year over year [Beck] posted the biggest loss of any cable news show averaging 1.8 million viewers, down 39% from January 2010. In 25-54 demo he dropped 48%, to 397,000.
His ratings have dropped in Seattle this year as well.
Could it be his message? Could it be his sweater? Wouldn't be surprised either way. We've been watching FNS again, to see the right-wing take on the Egyption uprising, and how soon they'll blame it on President Obama. We were amazed at how, er, far afield Beck has gone since last time we checked.
At the chalkboard with his fat wattle jiggling like a teevee evangelist's, Beck pant-hoots daily that the Egyptian crisis is just part of a “coming insurrection” that will engulf the North African Mediterranean countries, Southern Europe, then, he frets, Russia and China.
This will transpire because of the unholy alliance of 1960's Marxists (including Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn) The New World Order crowd (read Jews) and radical Islamists (Shia and Sunni!). President Obama, by Glenn's lights fits into all these categorie.
The mission: to destroy Western civilization, and then... establish a new caliphate—an Islamic theocracy. The ’60s radicals are working with the Islamists because they're so craven they'll go along with the theocracy part to get the satisfaction of seeing Western civilization fall.
Unless he flames out spectacularly, (a drunk, a fatal gaffe, a heart attack, God forbid) Glenn Beck will never go away, as we'd prefer: There'll always be people willing to suspend brain activity to bath their lobes in the dopamine that Beck administers so confidentally.
Some think he's the Anti Christ, (you haven't made it in America if somebody hasn't claimed you're the AC). Others think he's Hitler.
We can't take him even close to that seriously. Glenn Beck's a self-described rodeo clown and hardworking FM Morning Zoo jock who made it really, really big. He hasn't got a political base, he's got listeners. There's a difference. And, in radio and teevee all bad things (like good things) must come to an end...
On his show before the State of the Union on Tuesday, Rush Limbaugh used his direct line to Congressional Republicans to send a clear message:
"The election in November was not about Republicans and Democrats getting along with each other."
He must have read in Christina Bellantoni's piece in Roll CallMonday that "Several Republicans privately admitted [that] Members carefully monitor what's being said on conservative airwaves to make sure they aren't contradicting it or enraging talkers."
Also from Bellantoni's article:
With Members taking cues from the echo chamber as well as their party leadership, it's changed the way business gets done. Limbaugh and Fox News hosts Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity can mobilize more voters than any press release or floor speech, so Members find themselves needing to be responsive or face their wrath.
A Republican strategist and former top Republican National Committee aide told Roll Call that Members have one of two reactions when constituents start a message with "I just heard on Rush today ..." -- "joy and panic."
Limbaugh has more than 20 million listeners, and most Members couldn't dream of their message being so widely spread back home, the GOP strategist said.
"You've got to break eggs to make an omelette, and if you've never been mentioned on these shows in either a favorable or less than favorable context, one has to wonder, are you actually making an impact?" the strategist said.
If Limbaugh or Beck pushes an issue, his audience picks up the phone and taps out e-mails, asking lawmakers to take action. "These Members understand that their constituents are listening to this, and the consequence will elicit action that will place pressure on them," the strategist said.
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The liberal watchdog group Media Matters has compiled examples of Limbaugh and Fox themes that made it from the airwaves to the floors of the House and Senate.
After Fox replayed "sting" videos showing alleged fraud at the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, then-Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) introduced a measure to cut ACORN's government funding. Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas) wrote a resolution honoring James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles for producing the ACORN videos, and 31 of his GOP colleagues signed on. It never received a vote.
When Beck suggested on his show in June that an Obama administration drilling decision helped liberal billionaire George Soros, two Republican Members repeated the claim using similar language on the House floor. Limbaugh called the BP oil spill fund set up last year a "slush fund," a term repeated by Members in television appearances and during floor debates.
The kerfuffle in Colorado of the gun-toting school board member and radio station owner who broadcasts a denunciation of Martin Luther King Jr. brings back memories of those halcyon days when Dr. King was still alive.
Brett Reese, owner/operator of KELS-FM, a tiny "pirate" station has been running a letter four times daily every three years leading up to MLK Day denouncing King as a sexual degenerate, an embezzler, a "plastic god" and "an America-hating communist."
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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