[BC] Possible XM/Sirus merger?

[Craig Bowman]

Conflict is not the entertainment, listening to someone who shares your 
opinion about the idiots on the other side is.  Yes I do remember bogus 
record bannings / burnings.  The "Fairness" Doctrine is not a bogus 
banning, it really stifles opinions.  Did the bogus record bannings 
increase overall radio listenership?  Did the country stations benefit 
from it?  Since when is censorship (it is the government imposing the 
restriction) a good things?

Craig Bowman


Robert Meuser wrote:
> And the entertainment would get better with more conflict? Do you not 
> remember when top 40 stations went out of their way to create a 
> similar conflict to get ratings? You have forgotten bogus record 
> bannings?
>
> R
>
> Craig Bowman wrote:
>
>> With all due respect Robert that is like mandating a music station to 
>> play a country song after each pop song.  Talk radio is 10% 
>> information and 90% entertainment, don't forget that!  As with music 
>> stations; people will listen to that which they wish to hear.  As 
>> Herbert Bayard Swope is famous for saying " I can't give you a 
>> sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for 
>> failure: try to please everybody all the time."
>>
>> Craig Bowman
>> Durand, MI
>>
>>
>> Robert Meuser wrote:
>>
>>> The government does not decide. It is balance. I think a station 
>>> would get better ratings running Rush and Al Franken back to back 
>>> than  either would being all conservative or all liberal. You guys 
>>> are blind to what real competition can achieve, please go back to 
>>> your caves.
>>>
>>> R
>>>
>>>
>>> wpio fm radio wrote:
>>>
>>>> Robert Meuser wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I disagree. It might just improve radio and eliminate the worst of 
>>>>> the blow hards.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No Robert, let the market place determine if and how many blow 
>>>> hards there are.  You don't want government deciding it for you.
>>>>
>>>> Randy H
>>>>
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