Rush Limbaugh Does the Country a Favor As He Brings Other Conservative Radio Down With Him
Cumulus Media CEO Lew Dickey blames Rush for the stunning loss in revenue that is impacting other talk shows, “We’ve had a tough go of it the last year. The facts are indisputable regarding the impact certain things have had on ad dollars.” Those “certain things” are the successful advertiser boycotts against Rush Limbaugh, also known as Rush Limbaugh’s refusal to be civilized. Dickey made his point.
Cumulus released its quarterly earnings figures on Tuesday morning, reporting a 1.3 percent decline in revenues. Media Matters reported that Cumulus reported a $2.4 million dollar decline in revenue in a first quarter in their first quarter earnings call with investors. But it’s not just the latest quarter. Media Matters pointed out, “Dickey has reported millions in losses associated with Limbaugh in previous quarters as well.”
Things are so bad that Rush’s losses are taking down other conservative shows.
Media Matters explained, “Limbaugh has become so toxic that he’s hurting other conservative talk shows.” In March of this year, Media Matters explained that due to the structure of radio ad buys, the loss of revenue wiped out other national talk shows, resulting in forcing talk radio to move away from conservative talk:
At a Talkers forum last year, Norm Pattiz, CEO of Courtside Entertainment, summed up the destructive effect Limbaugh has had on the entire industry, noting that a “tremendous chunk of advertising revenue was wiped out in terms of support for national talk radio programs.” Pattiz added that “the movement in talk radio to some degree is moving away from conservative talk radio and into other genres.”
Media reporters like Politico’s Dylan Byers (who was one of two reporters selected to interview Kurtz on Reliable Sources Sunday, along with NPR’s David Folkenflik) and Huffington Post’s Michael Calderone, academics such as NYU’s Jay Rosen, and others in the industry lit up the social network with comments and reporting when the news broke.
But the low ratings lend credence to the claim that few people outside of the media world care about media reporting. That seems to be especially true among young people — a deeper dive into the ratings shows that the age of the average viewer for Sunday’s show was 64.2 and that it scored a infinitesimal 0.6 ratings among viewers 18-49 years old — which equates to roughly 70,000 viewers.
No One Watched Howard Kurtz’s Apology Sunday
That’s because Kurtz’ greatest flaw didn’t come from one sloppy article, but being part of a visible industry that follows its own norms instead of delivering content that critical readers will find informative, enlightening and/or beneficial to all.
I think that Woodstein has been gone a long time, if they / it ever existed.
TANTAROS: I mean look, if the president is going to talk about his daughters, typically I would not talk about the daughters, unless, of course, they go to the Bahamas on spring break and we have to pay for it and I think it’s wrong, which I do. But they’re not grown women. So I’m just wondering, at 15 years old, is the Obama daughter, Malia, going to go on birth control? Are they gonna put her on birth control? Because he’s very concerned with the contraceptives and pharmaceuticals that are going in the mouths of everybody else’s 15-year old daughter.
But it’s definitely collectivism, right? “It takes a village.” Do you hear it, everybody? “It takes a village to raise your kids.” President Obama is now the parent-in-chief. Kathleen Sebelius is raising your kids. Joe Biden is raising your kids. Oh not even, it doesn’t stop there. It’s not kids. They consider 15-year olds to be women. They want to tell grown women what to do. They know how grown women feel. They have no idea how women feel. They should stop talking about it, because they have no clue.
if you’re with me and we see Andrea Tantaros, make sure it’s worth my trouble to spit or pour a beverage on her, please.
Hell Froze Over: UT-San Diego Endorsed Labor Leader Lorena Gonzalez
Gotta wonder if the U-T found any fault with Steve Castañeda.
While violent terrorism is undoubtedly real, it is worth restating a few basic statistical facts about the level of threat it poses to the average American. In their 2010 report for Foreign Affairs, John Mueller and Mark G Stewart constructed a comparative analysis of terrorism compared to other potential causes of death to Americans. What the results showed was that the average American on an annual basis is more likely to be killed by one of their home appliances, drowning in a bathtub, or in a car accident involving a deer, than they are to be killed in a terrorist attack. This is to say nothing of the threat of ordinary violent crime, which poses a greater threat by several orders of magnitude than that of terrorist violence and continues to churn on at an industrial scale throughout the country.
Nevertheless, due in large part to unbalanced and sensationalist media coverage, Americans have been more willing to part with their rights and freedoms in response to perceived threats from terrorism than they have from violent crime - the latter of which receives proportionately scant media attention. Viewed in this light it is easier to reconcile how tens of thousands of gun deaths a year can be taken in stride as “the price of freedom”, while a single bombing can prompt calls for the suspension of the once-cherished civil liberties granted to citizens by the American Constitution.
Local Newspaper Deletes Story About Saudi Government Plan to Link Twitter Accounts to National IDs
Saudi English-language daily Arab News published a front page story today saying the government may try to end anonymity for Twitter users in the country by limiting access to the site to people who register their national identification documents. That story was soon picked up by international news agency Reuters, but it seems that the original report in Arab News has been deleted since then.
Matt Lauer Reportedly Cool With Anderson Cooper Replacing Him Or Something: Gothamist
If you hate big media, you’ll find the most delicious schadenfreude in this.
The Day That TV News Died: "I am stunned at how many Americans stand mute.”
Remember this about MSNBC a decade after Dubya began his vendetta against Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
This week, after being mocked in the press with an attack piece by the Daily Mail columnist Richard Littlejohn, schoolteacher Lucy Meadows committed suicide.
Lucy was raised male, but had recently undergone a transition to live as female — which for Littlejohn was reason enough to attack her in column. Leading with the mocking headline “He’s not only in the wrong body… he’s in the wrong job”, Littlejohn belittled and harassed Meadows, referring to her decision as her “personal problems” and playing on the outdated scare tactic that LGBT people are a threat to children.
Join me in signing a petition to the Daily Mail to fire Richard Littlejohn, issue an apology, and institute an editorial review to ensure that this never happens again.
@MSNBC selectively remembers the #Iraq #War
Morning Joe and Luke Russert leave out some important context. Like how much MSNBC pushed for war.
