Speaking of radio, check out this news from the Planet Vulcan

Go to this link, that's right, just click on it
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/technology/15radio.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

for an amazing story from The New York Times about .....

The media in San Francisco

The power of blogging and

The fear of big media companies when they're feeling a wee bit threatened by a suitable part of the audience fed up with untethered arch conservative talk show hosts....and the power of just one person who took a stand.

I once took a stand, but my mother made me give it back.


What in hell is going out there with radio? Sacramento's KDND yesterday ... (see my earlier posts "Death by Media" two days ago or "The End " today)...San Francisco today! What in hell is in the water out there. Man, a little really cold weather and the big boys go whacko. BRAIN FREEZE !!

It all started when a reputable blogger (aren't we all? ) named Spocko at http://www.spockosbrain.com took on KSFO and , with some help, asked advertisers if they actually knew the right wing attitudes they were sponsoring. Hateful words were being spewed over the airwaves in the City by the Bay according to Spocko and it's creating quite a stir as old Spocko is being threatened with a lawsuit by Disney .....who owns ABC.... who owns the station ....who swallowed a fly ...because , again according to Spocko, advertisers pulled their ads.

If it's left to the lawyers, Spocko will be leaving more than his heart in San Francisco.

It's complicated , The NY Times sums it up well, liberal , biased bastards that they are, and you can draw your own conclusions.

I once drew my own conclusions but my mother made me erase them.

Conservative radio in San Francisco??? Sounds like that'd work as well as an all Klezmer station in Tehran or Damascus, but I betcha they get the ratings. I believe KSFO is a pretty big station and quite powerful.

You can also check this out at the excellent blog at http://steveklotz.com/blog.

Good luck Spocko, live long and prosper!

The End

For those of you who listened to my podcast "Death by Media" or read my article from two days ago, you'll be pleased to know that Sacramento radio station KDND 107.9 fired their "Morning Rave " talk show hosts and seven other staffers after their well thought out contest to see how much water you could drink without making tinkle. It wound up killing a local woman and contest entrant from "water intoxication". This will probably improve their ratings.

The station markets itself as "the end" and indeed it was for one listener and about 10 others.



This stops their next contest dead in it's tracks. It was to see how much Ex-Lax you could ingest without shitting.

Concerning this, Tony Snow announced that this means that President Bush will have the cork up his ass surgically removed sometime this week. Too bad, because the grand prize was "brush clearing " equpment! But hopefully this will clear his head as just this week he said the Iraqi's owe us a great deal of gratitude for the help and stability we've given them by invading and fighting off the insurgency which wasn't there or close to there until we invaded looking for weapons of mass destruction which weren't there either.

You're welcome!