Recently WZON The Sports Zone radio station in Bangor, owned by Stephen King, changed its longtime format away from sports radio to become The Pulse a left leaning Progressive radio station with national shows hosted by Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz and the like.
In fairness to Mr. King it is his station and he does still appear to be committed to broadcasting local sports events and Dale and Clem do still have a show on each afternoon.
However being a left leaning moderate I can now say without a doubt that the only thing more annoying than listening to a crazy conservative is a whiny liberal. I find that the people on both extremes might well have an opinion I agree with the but the delivery of their message is such that they lose me. Liberal Democrats are the worst when on a forum supported by people of a like mind.
Recently I heard a caller talk about the need for Bush to be tried for War Crimes that he clearly has admitted to in his recent book. The host did not disagree but did offer that seemed an unlikely scenario.
I think Bush was a bad President and I agreed with few of his decisions but to suggest that we would try our President for war crimes is a ridiculous thought.
Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and the kooks of the right are as bad if not worse and this illustrates the point.
Just as television is fragmented and radio now is a series of niches talk radio is just a bunch of people who agree augmenting each others opinion.
What we need is an old early days of FM radio culture. A melting pot where people grow together. Those days are gone.
Spare me and spare us all from the talk radio mentality that threatens to make each and every rumor fact and each and every action filled with an evil intent.
The Presidents trip to India cost 200 million a day ..is just another example.
We all need to take a step back.
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