vendredi 8 juin 2018

Deciding On A Conservative Talk Radio Show

By Richard Johnson


Most people have heard of programs like this because there are so many of them out there. It is easy to ascertain what a person's political views or even moral beliefs are if they choose to blast shows like this on their stereo day in and day out. There can be pros and cons to listening to a conservative talk radio show, and it's good to keep both in mind.

As long as the listener fully knows and understands that the hosts of these shows are mainly just spouting off their opinions, there isn't much danger of being brainwashed or anything like that. While it can be entertaining, some people unfortunately listen to this sort of thing and treat it like cold hard fact. The best thing for a person to do is listen to both sides and see how they feel then.

This genre of programming is often a fairly broad category since there are a number of different ideologies that are distinctly different but still technically a part of conservatism. For example, libertarian programming is one that has many different facets in itself, and one that many conservatives also identify with. This is just one of many offshoots of conservatism that are popularly thought of as part of these types of shows.

In 1949, the FCC introduced the Fairness Doctrine. This set forth rules making it so all licensed broadcasts had to represent different points of view fairly and evenly. Eventually, this was seen to actually be a bad thing because it didn't work the way it was intended, and was abandoned in 1987.

There was nothing more dangerous on a broadcasted program during the Fairness Doctrine than to have a host who was outspoken and controversial. Nowadays, the very opposite is true for these types of shows. This is because stations don't have to worry about getting in trouble with the FCC anymore.

Many people enjoy these kinds of shows in podcast form. This gives the listener the advantage of being able to choose when they listen. It makes it easy to jump around between shows and listen wherever you want.

When the US was attacked on September 11th, plenty of things changed in people's hearts and minds. There were a whole lot of Americans who felt the best thing to do was rally around their country and its government, and take on a more nationalist point of view. This sparked a huge surge of new shows like these.

One of the things that springs to mind for most people when they think of the hosts of these kinds of shows nowadays is the controversies. This makes sense since a lot of people love these programs specifically because the hosts are outspoken. However, when the hosts start saying things that are misogynistic, racist, and xenophobic, there are going to people plenty of people who won't want to sponsor or listen to that host anymore.




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