Posted by Randall Bloomquist on April 13, 2010
According to Forbes, Glenn Beck is looking to help others replicate his multi-media success. The magazine reports that some 20 established media personalities have approached Beck’s company about learning how to blow-up huge by effectively employing the tools that helped make Beck a household name. I’ll be interested to see who Beck’s company decides to [...]
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Posted by Randall Bloomquist on February 10, 2010
The Daily Beast recently posted a list of talk show hosts who are supposedly poised to be “the next Glenn Beck.” This apparently means a personality capable of transcending radio to become a political or cultural force. You know, somebody who will one day be the subject of a fretful Time magazine cover story. Daily [...]
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Posted by Randall Bloomquist on February 9, 2010
The recent demise of Air America Media reignited the debate over why liberal talk radio has struggled to find a viable audience. You’ve heard all the theories: bad business plan; putting politics ahead of entertainment; the mainstream media provides enough liberal news and comment, et cetera. Now former liberal talk host Steve Young puts forth a [...]
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Posted by Randall Bloomquist on October 4, 2009
Excellent insight in this NYT opinion piece on what talk radio hosts and rappers have in common. Hint: A lot, including a hunger for financial success and its rewards. Jay-Z could have been talking about Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck when he wrote, “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man.”
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Posted by Randall Bloomquist on September 9, 2009
Free Press, a left-leaning group that advocates media “diversity” and “quality journalism” has sent an open letter to President Obama begging him not to be bullied by Glenn Beck. The group, no fan of conservative talk on a good day, was apparently driven to such histrionics by anger over Beck’s role in whipping up opposition [...]
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Posted by Randall Bloomquist on September 9, 2009
In a recent post on the libertarian website reason.com, Michael C. Moynihan offered this analysis of the situation in Washington: The Obama administration keeps fumbling, but the Republicans can’t seem to scoop up the ball — in part because the GOP seems focused not on providing alternatives and legitimate criticism, but on scaring people to death with extreme scenarios and [...]
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Posted by Randall Bloomquist on July 16, 2009
Media Matters for America, the liberal media “watchdog” group, this week debuted a daily two-minute synopsis of what it considers the most “hateful rhetoric, offensive commentary and conservative paranoia” heard on talk radio. The first three installments include snippets from Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, Glenn Beck, Dennis Miller and Quinn and Rose. There are also cameos by local talkers, [...]
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Posted by Randall Bloomquist on May 22, 2009
Huffington Post media blogger Bill Mann knows why conservatives dominate political talk radio: It’s because Clear Channel owns Premiere Radio Networks, syndicator of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and (in partnership with Citadel) Sean Hannity. Yes, this is the same Bill Mann who recently argued on Huffington that Rush Limbaugh has so many affiliates because stations [...]
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Posted by Randall Bloomquist on April 26, 2009
The folks at SurvivalSeedBank.com want you to know that when society collapses, tomatoes and cucumbers will be the new cabbage. And that collapsewill be here before you know it. According to the website: “You don’t have to be an Old Testament prophet to see what’s going on all around us. A belligerent lower class demanding [...]
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Posted by Randall Bloomquist on April 12, 2009
Time magazine’s James Poniewozik does a nice job of breaking down the curious appeal of Glenn Beck’s apocalypse-themed radio and cable shows. Read it here: http://tinyurl.com/co6cs7
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