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WFNX to become right-wing wankfest?
By adamg on Thu, 07/05/2012 - 1:42pm
UPDATE: No right-wing wankfest - station will a Mike 93.7 successor.
The Phoenix reports the station it's selling to Clear Channel might be about to become Boston's new home of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Jimmy Severino, at least, if you follow where talk1017.com leads to.
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Awesome
I Can't Wait!
They picked a bad time to sell right-wing hate radio in Boston
The BPPA is taking heat for their abusive attitudes and language toward basically everyone but white males, and for months a Rush Limbaugh advertiser boycott has been going strong since Rush called that girl from Georgetown University a slut for testifying to Congress.
People are sick of the irresponsible bullying and hate, and they're willing to spend some of their time on the boycott: listening to the show in order to make a list of advertisers, national and local, and contacting them to ask them not to advertise. It's a team effort and they've made a ton of progress:
Go to http://stoprush.org/dropped-sponsors/ for more info.
Thank goodness a degenerate
Thank goodness a degenerate like Bill Maher can spew his left wing mysoginistic filth without any repercussions.
I know it's a new concept for right-wingers
Spelling "misogyny" correctly is kind of the first step into blindly flinging it out as an accusation.
While you're in the dictionary, also look up "false equivalence". Comparing Bill Maher's influence to that of Rush Limbaugh is like comparing the NE Revolution's fanbase to Manchester United.
What I didn't understand is why Rush Limbaugh
What I didn't understand is why Rush Limbaugh thought it was a good idea to continue to try and humiliate Sandra Fluke for weeks and months after she first testified to Congress ... about access to prescription birth control in health car for reasons other than contraceptive prophylactic. In other words, as medicine.
I guess he didn't realize that his audience had grown from the dittoheads who find him entertaining and empowering to include people who wanted to judge him for themselves, as well as the press that picked up on the spat. Anyway, he was the big loser. Let's hear it for sunshine.
You can't expect Rush to understand
I mean, the man has no understanding of the concept of prescription drugs being used as medicine ... from black market oxycontin to Viagra that isn't his used in a resort known for underage prostitutes.
Who are the current
Who are the current advertisers?
There are national sponsors, and local sponsors
There are national sponsors, and local sponsors who buy advertising on the Rush Limbaugh show.
StopRush.org identifies three remaining national sponsors here.
The effort to track local sponsors and ask them not to sponsor Limbaugh's irresponsible hate speech is done at the local level but I think there's an online resource setup to track it. That way people can can join the effort in a coordinated way. Sometime they contact the radio station manager first. sometime they picket the station. Sometimes that log advertisers and then contact them. Just like the BPPA newsletter, it impressive how many organizations DO NOT WANT their brand associated with Rush Limbaugh once it's brought to their attention.
The situation in Boston is a bit different. We want to find out what Clear Channels' plans are and design a strategy to keep irresponsible talk off the airwaves. They are our airwaves.
One possibility is a letter writing campaign to the FCC. Another is the use of social networking to biuld the movement here in the boston area.
Hey!
Good luck with that! When you're done,can you bring home the troops from Afghanistan? Then figure out how to solve the deficit!
Ugh.
Thanks again for selling out, Mindich. If there's one thing Boston desperately needed, it was another platform from which to spout racist, homphobic rants under the guise of conservative christianity. Ugh.
Tragic
First Scott Brown ends up in Ted's seat and now this.
Ted's seat ? It is the
Ted's seat ? It is the people's seat.... Career politicians like the Kennedy clan are what's wrong with politics ... And Kennedy was a fat fraud who panders to layabouts and literally got away with murder on the vineyard ... Yet people like you idolize him ... Sickening
Yes, the people's...
And the people gave it to Ted to represent them until he sadly passed away. Therefore, calling it Ted's seat is apt, just as currently calling it Scott's seat is.
And in a few months you can call it Elizabeth's seat.
hahahahah
Liz's seat ya!
You mean the peoples seat!
Damn Liberals.
Liberals... Tolerance Personified
Unless, of course, your views differ from theirs, then it's personal and ad hominem attacks out the ying-yang!
Might want to check who came out swinging
and
Seem like ad hominem attacks against liberals. Care to point where Datadyne said anything like that?
Victim
Don't bother. Conservatives are always the victim.
Ironic use of victomology
since conservatives were the first to pounce on this concept. Now they are the only ones who speak of victimization. It's quite similar to the way they deride ACA as socialism in spite of it being modelled on a Heritage Foundation proposal. They are a farcical self-parody.
Some local color?
(Don't worry, right wingers, not THAT kind of color)
I really hope they tailor it to the local market with shows like:
* Pax Centurion, a three-hour men-in-blue discussion about the unworthy scumbags that the police are ill-paid to grudgingly protect
* Business Week with Curt Schilling
* America's Next Top Scott Brown Campaign Strategist, where contestants make whoop-whoop noises and imitate Indians from '40s Westerns
* Somebody reading online comments verbatim from the Globe and Herald websites
Remake for the 21st century
Taxi Driver's Choice
(of Conspiracy Theories)
Featuring the very best of Boston's Medallion renters.
LOL...can't make this sh*t up
LOL...can't make this sh*t up
ROFL
Can't make this shut up, either.
And they're moving their office too, right ?
I lost track — is the radio station moving to North Beacon Street, or the Phoenix newspaper? (Or either?)
Just trying to work out who my new upstairs neighbors at work are going to be…
New Neighbors
Well, if they'll be broadcasting nationally syndicated talk shows, your new neighbors will be a handful of engineers and techs to turn the local news and commercials on and off.
True, to an extent
Yes, that'll be the day to day people, but presumably there would be a studio so that they could have, I dunno, Mike Barnacle or Jeff Jacoby or someone like that come in to spout off about the topic of the day. Or maybe local “talent” like Jay Severin will actually work out of the building. Oh joy…
Does Jay live in Massachusetts?
Last I heard he was living in New York and pretending to be broadcasting from Massachusetts.
One way to find out
No idea where he lives. Wikipedia says Manchester-by-the-Sea — and, of course, Wikipedia is never wrong.
If the steam & hot air start coming out of the windows after the move in, I'll let you know.
Why live in MA?
Taxes are lower. Seriously.
Rumor says that the whole
Rumor says that the whole PMCG is moving to Beacon Street. I'm guessing the online radio folks will be there once they shut down the station in Lynn. I'm pretty sure CC won't need the old 'FNX offices.
Yeah, that seems to be the idea, but…
What I mean is, if the PMCG sold WFNX to Clear Channel, then is it PMCG (sans zombie 'FNX) that's moving to Beacon Street, or is zombie 'FNX coming over, too? I assume not, but haven't seen anything clear one way or the other.
Zombie FNX will be in the
Zombie FNX will be in the PMCG offices, you can count on that.
"The People's Seat" is a load
"The People's Seat" is a load of crap. Scott Brown rode into office on special interest money and it's those people he's represented there. He caucuses with science-denying ignoramuses from Oklahoma and Alabama and against those who stand up for equality, working people and the poor.
I'm sure Brown will be a regular fixture on 101.7 once he's booted from office. Thanks, Mindich, for proving to all of us that your liberal politics are only skin deep.
He could've sold it to virtually anyone else and it would've either kept the current format or transitioned to something a little less offensive.
And Liz Warren, from
And Liz Warren, from "science-denying ignoramus" infested Oklahoma, also with running for office with massive out of state specialist interest funding is different how?
The difference between Brown & Warren
The difference between Scott Brown's campaign funding and Elizabeth Warren's is that he is accepting funding from SuperPAC's and she is not. Just like in his first election, the Koch brothers infused money into his campaign late in the game and bussed in crowds from out-of-state to plump up his campaign stop crowds. So sorry to inject reality into your opinions...
Can you name those "Special interests"?
The ones that are pouring all this money into Warren's campaign. I only ask because Karl Rove's fingerprints are all over Brown's campaign.
You can tell by the fact Brown only refers to Warren as "Professor". You know, cuz we cain't have no librul perfesser in office when we have a good ole boy like Scott Brown.
Cuz he's for you!
Spend some quality time with
Spend some quality time with facts rather than left wing 'hate' talking points:
http://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary.php?id=MA...
http://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary.php?cycle...
Never one to recycle left wing talking points...
I can also read a webpage that lists contribution data that has not been updated since March 31. If you have any concept of how politics works, the super PAC contributions are probably much higher to Brown by now and will increase exponentially once Warren smokes him in the debates.
Also, the link provided shows Brown's PAC contributions out numbering Warren's 3 to 1.
Since this thread started out about Boston talk radio, I can't wait for the debut of the Scott and Michelle show on the new FNX. With his brains and her brawn, they'd surely give those old feebs Jim and Margery a run for their money, no?
You're right, calling her Professor is so annoying!
Just because she "works" at Harvard and makes $350K/year as a tenured law professor, doesn't make it any less annoying.
(BTW, how do you think she stands on OWS's demands of tuition forgiveness?)
I personally prefer her 1/32 Cherokee name, Lieawatha.
Sorry, dude
This isn't the audition line for jobs at the new station. But with fresh material like that, I like your chances once they get going.
Liewatha?
Sorry, but that doesn't sound like Cherokee to me.
That just sounds like a new means of self-identifying as an ignorant fool.
Ms. Warrens position on education and loans
Right there, if you're smaht enough to google. Then again, blindly parroting old talking points doesn't exactly point to wit or intelligence. I'm going out on a limb and guessing you didn't do too well in school, bluto, and harbor some resentment to those of us who did and went on to bigger and better things?
Analyzing the Warren quote
Looking at the quote, something struck me. First she says:
Then she explains how education is the key to one's future (OK, no argument there), but doesn't address the key issue in her opening statement - an unemployed college graduate. She talks about teachers, childhood education, blah blah blah. Yet, here we have a college educated person with no job.
Look, I agree with millions of others that education is the great equalizer, and that one should be able to get a good education if one wants it. Not exactly going out on a limb there. I also agree that there has been a disturbing trend where public colleges have been supported less and less over the years, causing tuitions to rise, leaving students with more debt than they care to have. Fine again.
But, her argument about education does little to solve the problem she introduces in her opening statement - a college educated person with no job. She tries to explain what would happen here:
But one could simply ask, why do we already have all these well-educated people with no jobs? What happened to our competitve advantage?
IMHO, this is statement that needs to be tweaked a bit.
Not impossible to reconcile the two points
The argument is this:
Put another way, we need to separate the high cost from the eventual product, because the current economy makes baring the cost difficult if not impossible. She isn't saying the newly educated will never find work. She's saying that because they haven't yet, they can't right at this time afford the cost of the education.
It's worth noting that a
It's worth noting that a large part of the expense of education as been inflated by easy credit. Universities keep raising tuition and useless degrees in silly studies because the average student can keep taking out government subsidized loans to finance such behavior. When the customers, i.e. students, finally decide that it isn't worth going to massive amount of debt for a particular degree from a particular school, this trend will stop. Students haven't been making proper cost to benefit ratio assessment of degrees and schools due to the historically relatively low borrowing cost of higher education.
Throwing more money at education isn't only going to make the problem worse and enable schools to continue their behavior.
I'm
not sure that's the real driver of higher education needs and prices.
Menial office work is now requiring BS's and 3.0+ GPA's with 2 years of office experience for a starting entry level job. Meanwhile the boomers and Gen Y'ers above these folks have diplomas or associates degrees.
It's only becomes worse with the economy tanking and the employment marketed heavily favoring employers.
HR departments are requiring not only specific training and education backgrounds, but great grades, outside experience and being able to hit the ground running. All for jobs that are not harder than most HS classes.
The demand from the private market for educated individuals is just as warped as that of a college education from HS graduates. Students are not talking out loans and going to college because it's cheap. They're doing it because it's the new paradigm to get employment. I'm not sure you can pin that on cheap loans.
And even if you do, reducing the number of college graduates might help there, but then we're talking about a numbers issue. Is an economy better off with a less educated, less productive workforce? Just to create a higher demand for all college educated individuals by lowering the number of loans and graduates possible?
If we're arguing that there's simply too many highly educated individuals in the US for the number of good jobs we have, something has gone terribly wrong in how we've structured our whole economy the past 30 years.
My problems with the younger workforce:
I work with a lot of temp agencies and there are a few things I've noticed when it come to the younger workforce.
-getting a college degree isn't that impressive anymore. If and only if you went to a really good school, I at least know you have the brains to write things like formal letters, emails, etc. I'm always shocked with the amount of people with high level degrees who simply don't know how to write an email or professional communication without sounding like an 8th grader.
-the way to get a good job is to start small in a big company/ field you want to work in. If you are good at the work you do, people will notice. Hang in there a few years and good things will come. If they don't, move on to another company and see what happens there? If you still aren't moving up, you probably aren't good at what you do. It might be time to find a new line of work. The world does need ditch diggers too after all.. More often than not people have an inflated opinion on how good they are at their job.
-still way too many wierd people out there. Wierd people don't get jobs, especially jobs that deal with other people. What is wierd you ask? You know it when you see it. Creepy people are universal.
- I'm convinced 50% of people don't know how to conduct themselves at an interview. Guys shoud not wear black club shirts with dark ties. Clean your dam shoes and wear a belt for crying out loud!!!
- Too many people screen their calls. If you are in the middle of a job application process, always answer your phone if you get a call, and expect to be called! And call back within 10 minutes dammit! I want to hire you, answer your damn phone!
- Now this moght just be me, but I always like resumes that include personal goals/accomplishments or other random facts about a person.
- if you don't have at least a 3.0 GPA, don't put it on your resume. And don't put some funky high school weighted GPA on there either. I don't care if you had a 7.5 GPA at the Boston school for inflated snowflakes.
- be prepared in an interview to explain what your weaknesses are. This is a standard question and should never stump anyone. And please don't tell me that you weakness is that your a perfectionist, if you were perfect, you wouldn't need to find a new job. I think a decent answer to the weakness question is that you "try to do much" or "I could be better at delegating work better"
Hmm, well I got a little off track but I hear about how new college grads are getting such a raw deal, when they can do a lot of things to help themselves.
Yeah, I really messed up in skewl
In both undergratuate and that Master's program, I didn't check the box and falsely claim to be a protected class. I guess by your standards, that qualfies as not doing "too well". Think how much better I would be doing now if I had been a convenient Cherokee too?
Sorry, kids. She's a 24-carat gold-plated phony, who's playing all you hand-wringing mewling "progressives" just like Deval (D-Ameriquest, Texaco, Coke) did, and does.
If you want to hold your nose and vote for her, okay. But can we stop pretending that she's Jesus Christ's kid sister?
Whats with
Conservatives and every Dem politician being "the messiah"? Aren't politicians just people too?
Warrens a Conservative at heart, and used to be a card carrying member of the GOP. That's part of the reason this economically conservative progressive is voting for her, without holding his nose. That she fits nicely in with the Dem platform is a testament of how loony the GOP has gotten and staryed from what truly is Conservative. That GOP registration in MA is down to 11% and there was a huge clusterfrak over the delegate process is just another drop in the bucket of a party of loons fighting over their own narrow tribalism.
Bluto, if it makes you feel any better I helped to get Brown elected when I couldn't vote for Coakley and abstained in protest. If you were talking about her I'd tend to agree. Warrens the real deal though.
Dude...them's way too many word thingies...
for the average Scott Brown voter. Can't you just call her a liberal Communist Socialist intellectual from Cambridge and be done with it?
Or would you rather wait to get Michele (one L on Facebook) McPhee's take on it?
I just figured you out
You should probably stop getting your ass kicked by Popeye. It's starting to give you brain damage.
Mindich stopped being a liberal
they day he started being a pimp. A very well paid pimp. He's the Larry Flynt of Louisburg Square. The fact that this move surprises anyone boggles the mind.
Stevie M.
I'm not one to defend Mindich, but whatever Clear Channel ends up doing with the signal is 100% out of his control. He sold off the spot on the dial and they get to decide what to broadcast.
Still Mindich's fault
If he really needed to sell the station, he could have picked someone else (preferably a local business group) to sell it to. That might not have preserved the 'FNX format but at least it wouldn't be an assault against the intelligence of the Greater Boston radio listening audience.
He clearly knew....
... what sort of operation Clear Channel is.
Please....Mindich knew exactly
what he was doing. Ever met the man? He's an oily, greasy, sweaty pimp. He sold out long before it became fashionable.
Let's not forget one other thing. You ever see the amount of ad space that Clear Channel occupies in the Phoenix? Mindich knows which side of the bread the foie gras is on.
This is like getting audio
This is like getting audio herpes...
And what's Lynn going to do
And what's Lynn going to do now? That's another big employer gone.
*sarcasm off*
'FNX was well past it's due date.
Right-wing wankfest . . .
Isn't that redundant somehow?
Isn't it useful to have Glenn Beck around?
The second I learn that someone listens to that ridiculous, clownish, paranoid whack-job, I know that they are a hopeless idiot.
Well....
That represents an awful lot of people, unfortunately. I don't listen to Glen Beck (or any of those crazy talk-show hosts, for that matter), because I can't stand them, but one cannot stop a guys like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, etc., from coming onto the radio, etc., and spouting off their BS.
Glenn Beck still has a show?
Glenn Beck still has a show? I haven't heard that name in a year or two. And I've never heard of Jimmy Sevenino.... I guess I'm not their demographic (I've heard rumors that the radio dial goes up above 91 but i have not confirmed)
You might know Jimmy Severino better as [cue dramatic music]
James Severin, his nom de radio.
Nope, still don't know him.
Nope, still don't know him.
But ... but ... but ... He's Famous!
After all, doesn't he have three Pulitzers and seven Nobel Prizes for blogging???
But... But..
you support Obumba receiving the Nobel Peace Prize while increasing the amount of unmanned aircraft bombing and cross boarding attacks into Pakistan. Its ok right, because he's a Liberal!
We're sorry
The song and dance number you have recited has been disconnected. Your rant cannot be completed as dialed. Please consult your local directory for fresh talking points.
Yeh, right!
Ha ha ha!
"Jay" Severin
I think, not "James".
Yes, Jay
Arrgh, I'm losing touch with the rightwing radio rabblerousers I never listen to.
but...
I thought Rush was moving to Costa Rica.
Desperate Much
WFNX has apparently gone from being a great outlet for all kinds of music to a slave of FOX and the idiots who listen to them. I hope their airwaves reach out way beyond Boston, because MOST Bostonians in the age bracket that listen to radio, are educated college students and young educated professionals....both of who would rather eat cow dung than watch FOX or listen to their blow-hards.
If anyone's interested, Mindich did an interview
with WBUR on the sale. The horseshit runs deep in this guy. I love how he takes credit for single handedly inventing the alt-radio format. Of course he left out the part that WLYN was doing the exact same thing when he bought it and turned it into FNX. From the interview;
"WBUR:WFNX was your idea.
Mindich:Yes, the concept of an intelligent rock and roll music radio station for smart people was my idea going back to 1981 or ’82, we went on the air in ’83. I was inspired to love radio and what it could do by my time working at WBUR back in the 60s, and I knew that with the Boston Phoenix and its audience, there was a real opportunity to bring together in two different media this kind of radio station."
Now the Wikipedia entry on WLYN;
"In February 1983, WLYN-FM was sold to Stephen Mindich, owner of the Boston Phoenix, and in early April it was on the air under new call letters—WFNX; the new station retained for the most part the modern-rock format that had been launched by the previous owners, and subsequently expanded upon it."
My favorite was the part about the hardest day of his career. I would think the hardest day in his career came when he looked in the mirror one morning and saw a greasy flesh peddler staring back at him...
http://www.wbur.org/2012/05/18/wfnx-sale