{"id":1075,"date":"2008-07-06T11:53:50","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T10:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2008-07-06T20:47:43","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T19:47:43","slug":"the-secret-of-great-talk-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/07\/the-secret-of-great-talk-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"The secret of great talk radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1076\" href=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/2008\/07\/the-secret-of-great-talk-radio\/rush-limbaugh\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"frame alignright size-medium wp-image-1076\" title=\"Rush Limbaugh sign\" src=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/rush-limbaugh-228x171.jpg\" alt=\"Rush Limbaugh\" width=\"228\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/rush-limbaugh-228x171.jpg 228w, https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/rush-limbaugh-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/rush-limbaugh.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><span class=\"drop_cap\">R<\/span><strong>ush Limbaugh<\/strong>, the Beethoven of American <strong>talk radio<\/strong>, explains his success in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/06\/magazine\/06Limbaugh-t.html?pagewanted=3&amp;_r=1\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>NYT<\/strong><\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDo you know what bought me all this?\u201d [Limbaugh] asked, waving his hand in the general direction of his prosperity. \u201cNot my political ideas. Conservatism didn\u2019t buy this house. First and foremost I\u2019m a businessman. My first goal is to attract the largest possible audience so I can charge confiscatory ad rates. I happen to have great entertainment skills, but that enables me to sell airtime.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI hate to quote myself (or Mike even), but this is from <em><strong>Can You Trust The Media?<\/strong><\/em> (p.55):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The media is not in the information supply business. It is in the distraction business. It wants to occupy the seconds, minutes and hours of our lives that are not spent earning the money required to make us valuable to businesses as a consumer or governments as a taxpayer, and as much of our working time as it can. It is there to force itself into our consciousness and by doing so, live another day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rush Limbaugh, the Beethoven of American talk radio, explains his success in the NYT: \u201cDo you know what bought me all this?\u201d [Limbaugh] asked, waving his hand in the general direction of his prosperity. \u201cNot my political ideas. Conservatism didn\u2019t buy this house. First and foremost I\u2019m a businessman. My first goal is to attract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1601,1595,1596],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-can-you-trust-the-media","tag-rush-limbaugh","tag-talk-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}