Either Detroit radio station WJR-AM 760 is not aware there was also a Democratic primary in Michigan or it’s finally admitting it only caters to the right side of the political spectrum. A recent poll asking people who they plan to vote for during Michigan’s Jan. 15 presidential primary only listed Republican candidates among the choices.
The poll confirmed what many former listeners of the powerful radio station have been saying for years since the station lost the broadcast rights for Detroit’s professional sports teams. To illustrate how conservative the listeners of the 50,000-watt radio station have become with a steady diet of conservative radio hosts, the poll put former conservative Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in second place with 25 percent over Arizona Sen. John McCain with just 10 percent. The real election results were much different, with McCain finishing in second behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney with 30 percent of the vote with Huckabee in third with just 16 percent.
The self-proclaimed “Great Voice of the Great Lakes” has become the “Great Conservative Voice of the Great Lakes” with an almost exclusive line-up of conservative hosts that includes Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and Dr. Laura Schlessinger. Even the few local hosts are conservative, and in a poll the Michigan Messenger conducted last October, WJR morning host Frank Beckmann was voted the second most biased commentator or reporter in Michigan. This was an honor Beckmann did not appreciate, and he claimed in numerous emails he was fair and balanced, despite plenty of documentation to the contrary.
5 comments:
Quit you bitchen, turn the dial numnut! That's what I do when Albom comes on.
Don’t worry; I don’t even listen to the station anymore. Too bad they don’t want to make money and don’t reflect their audience. By the way, why would you turn Albom off? He’s a sportswriter. When was the last time you heard rush limpdick, sean haitiy, frank beckboy, mark leanright or any of the other rightwing nuts talk about the Detroit Lions?
To point out that WJR or Fox Cable News, along with 4-5 other national radio personalities have a traditional conservative tone is both pointless and ridiculous. It only highlights the fact that the other 99% of all media forms have a bias other than conservative...
Wise up and put down the Kool-Aid. Nobody is going to make you go to church, be a better father to your un-aborted child or even say "God" in public.
BL
Detroit Mich.
We should be able to voice our points of view, and allow others that disagree to voice their points of view too. Freedom of speech applies to everyone. From the most tolerent or the most intolerent. It does not matter, that is what makes this country free. You can listen, disagree, discuss, and perhaps by your words enlighten another to think through things deeper. Or as one said change the channel. I LOVE WJR as there is a chorus of consent within me as I listen to the high caliber of media talk host(s) do what they do best. That is to say they communicate effectively. If you disagree, then resort to name calling; as my daddy always said, "If you have to resort to name calling, it only means your revealing your lack of study in the English language. Strive to be an effective, illustrative communicator. The English language is very descriptive." Name calling is the lowest, uneducated way of communicating.
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