Why Do Talk Radio Hosts Hate Bloggers?

Do they see them as a threat to their livelihoods? I have heard Randi Rhodes, Ed Schultz and several from the other side just rip on bloggers like they are the scum of the earth warning their listeners to stay away. Bloggers are good and bad just like talk show hosts are good and bad. In my opinion the more opinions and people digging for information the better and when I hear someone rip on a source of information I become very suspicious of their true motives.

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are clueless when it comes to the internet. They have this phobia that everything is as false as a primetime commercial. It just means they haven't taken the time to find the blogs that back up their opinions with public records and other documents.

Give them time. Many people didn't figure out that Drudge was a hard core right-winger until the Gannon incident.

Radio talk-show hosts and others feel threatened because their audiences may learn the awful truth about the people behind the radio speaker, that they are just people and have opinions no better or worse than any other self-appointed experts. There's truth to be found just about anywhere, in the least likely places, and the punditocracy want to find it first so they can preserve their reputations and authority.

In short, knowledge is anarchic and has finally met its best medium in the Internet.

To get on mainstream radio you need some finesse. So the radio people probably get feedback on the blogs that is either misinformed or mean or somehow not up to a certain level of professionalism. And sometimes it would be right on. But they are not used to such 'live' feedback. Radio listeners are passive. It is a big change.

I can easily see how frustrating 'the change' involved in getting used to blogs would be. Some stuff on the blogs is crap.

And yes the good bloggers would be competition. And blogger have kept me away from my TV set (I mean DUing). So think of all the lost revenue for business.

follow the money. who, as a group are bashing bloggers?
That'd be the rest of the media.
the old media are becoming more and more irrelevant and thus must use suppression tactics.

They are upset that bloggers are making it evident just how NON-alternative radio really is.

Garbage...mostly because the bloggers were getting more TV coverage from the cable and network news than he was. Years ago after the drug addict had a short run on TV, occasionally they would ask him to appear on some of the cable talk shows but now the dinosaur, like the rest, is on the brink of being extinct with competing news sources...not just bloggers but also extraterrestrial radio.

Yesterday she said that we should stay in Iraq and now she is slamming the bloggers.

I don't know, I guess I'm not going to agree with any one person a hundred percent of the time. I really want to give her the benefit of the doubt.

This place is an excellent example...someone comes out with a claim, and be assured there'll be someone to debunk it with a ton of links. You can find a website that will say what you want, or one that will say the exact opposite...and the shear volume is what scares most people.

The internet...especially blogs and message boards are very iritating to radio people since many of the posters are annonymous and can take their shots at a Rhodes without having to really come forward...whereas if Randi goes after someone, it's in the public light to see. Shadow boxing is not fun for anyone.

Several years ago, I operated a message board where some of the "residents" got into a pissing match with a local radio personality. He'd get on the air and read some of the posts...people would fly to the website to see what was going on...my hit count went up, his ratings went up and we all did quite nicely on the deal. Remember, this is entertainment and many times personalities mean more than substance.

Although his blogging was inaccurate and misinformation most of the time.

their as possible. Thats what blogging brings to the table. Let the bloggers do the work many reporters don't have time to do. The good stuff will rise to the top and be picked up by the MSM. The more information the better.