Michael Medved, Thom Hartmann, Michael Harrison & guest host Patrick Gavin on where conservative talk radio is headed.
David Brock was leading a boycott Limbaugh campaign and spinning radio business changes as being a sign of a failure of Rush Limbaugh, which possibly hurt Rush Limbaugh’s advertising budget, but backfired on Progressive Talk Radio because advertisers wanted to pull out of all talk radio.
It looks like Limbaugh’s opponents are dramatizing the news of changing radio time slots as conservative failure, but experts in the media believe the news is just simply business negotiations being dramatized.
“Nothing is going to change. You gonna be able to get this radio program on as many, if not more radio stations down the road than it’s on now; and what you’re being treated to is just a public business negotiation.”
— Rush Limbaugh
Politico is an American political journalism organization based in Arlington County, Virginia, that distributes its content via television, the Internet, newspaper and radio.
Cumulus Media Networks is an American radio network owned and operated by Cumulus Media — the second largest broadcaster in the United States. As of 2011 it controls many of the radio assets formerly belonging to the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), which was broken up in 2007. Cumulus owns the portion of the network that was purchased by Citadel Broadcasting in 2007.
Cumulus Media Networks’ prominent hosts include Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Don Imus, Geraldo Rivera, Mike Huckabee, Mark Levin, Michael Savage, Jim Brickman, Kix Brooks (American Country Countdown), and Tom Kent.
Clear Channel Communications, Inc. is an American mass media company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. Founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays and B. J. “Red” McCombs, the company was taken private by Bain Capital, LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners in a leveraged buyout in 2008.
Clear Channel, the largest owner of full-power AM and FM radio stations in the United States, specializes in radio broadcasting (through subsidiary Clear Channel Broadcasting, Inc., and division, Clear Channel Media and Entertainment (formerly Clear Channel Radio), and, billboard/outdoor advertising (through subsidiary, Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.).
David Brock is an American journalist and author, and the founder of the media group, Media Matters for America. Brock was a journalist during the 1990s, who wrote the book The Real Anita Hill and the Troopergate story, which led to Paula Jones filing a lawsuit against Bill Clinton.
At the start of the presidency of George W. Bush his views shifted significantly towards the left. Brock founded Media Matters for America, a non-profit organization that describes itself as a “progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.”
Media Matters for America (MMfA) is a politically progressive media watchdog group that says it is “dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media”
Media Matters for America has listed a Misinformer of the Year since 2004, excluding 2007 …
Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly (2004)
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews (2005)
American Broadcasting Company (2006)
Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity (2008)
Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck (2009)
Fox News Channel’s Sarah Palin (2010)
Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation (2011)
Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh (2012)
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