Reply #83: A couple of points [View All]

not all would see a conspiracy if things get a bit screwy, or after given time if it doesn't succeed everywhere. We have a lot of folks who own, and/manage businesses and nonprofits here and some common sense. Just tends to be easy these days in the era of extreme hardball politics ala Grover Norquist, Tom DeLay, and Karl Rove of not ever even so briefly going down that thought path. They have pulled some pretty stunning (and successful) power plays in recent years. But just briefly going there doesn't mean buying it.

Per the long term success - and comparisons to NPR... NPR often covers multiple venues in a single market - and is funded primarily by "customers" so the pacing must have some market. However I don't find the formats (or pacing) similar at all. It all depends on the listeners, their reactions, and whether folks on the left and in the middle are as prone to be regular listeners to a talk radio format at all. Very different audiences than those for Hannity, Ingrams and the like (who I find quite tedious to listen to as well.) Jury is out.