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Bloggers are has-beens, never-will-be people, and ego-masturbators

I just noticed that fun Toledo Talk posting and Toledo Free Press story from two years ago, Jan 25, 2006, where in an interview with Michael Miller, WSPD afternoon talk show host Brian Wilson shared his interesting viewpoints on free speech by "normal" citizens.

From the TFP interview:

TFP: Did you follow the local Web blog comments about WSPD after Frantz was removed, on such sites as ToledoTalk.com?

Wilson: I haven't seen it, but every town has a blog, and they are generally populated by Kool-Aid drinkers, mouth-breathers, has-beens, never-will-be people and so on. It's a game that means nothing. It's generally a hobby for someone to masturbate their ego anonymously. I've been in this business 40 years. They're listeners. They have no clue how this business works.

created by jr on Jan 25, 2008 at 01:08:00 pm     Comments: 10

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wow

posted by upso on Jan 25, 2008 at 01:46:00 pm     #



He's been in this business forty years? Wow, you'd think he'd be good at it.

posted by Rodney on Jan 25, 2008 at 03:46:28 pm     #



I would think that Brain Wilson would prefer blogging over radio. At least with blogging, he can think out what he wants to say. Whenever he's challenged on the radio, he just mumbles and stammers until he can remember his "liberty" talking points. Besides, he blogs on WSPD's website. So does that make him a Kool-Aid drinker, mouth-breather, has-been, or a never-will-be?

posted by Chris99 on Jan 25, 2008 at 04:57:27 pm     #



I think Ron Paul's campaign is funded, promoted, and over promoted by more than few bloggers and internet-types. It's beyond Ron Paul's control. Radio didn't make Ron Paul's following as much as Brian would like it have. (I never heard of him until today). Teh internets did. It's serious business.(R) Radio is for listening to oldies and turning it to 88.3 to sync with my mp3 playa'.

In 3 hours of listening to the radio you can hear 1 or 2 views of some passing news story or you can read some of the most brilliant and insightful people that have ever lived and their take on far greater issues on this here DoD developed packet switch technology.

Radio licenses are prohibitively high. The prevailing free market libertarians (and deadsie Friedman)would call them barriers to competition and sandbags to keep the quality and range of programming low.

I'm sure when Tesla invented radio he dreamed it would be just another crappy commercial medium to espouse conventional reactionary views ad nauseum. If I want to hear the typical corporate rep/dem sales pitch, I can listen to my grandma. She makes kick ass eats and I can usually turn the conversation to the .

I was trying to demonstrate my limited knowledge of the business. Cut to commercial.

posted by charlatan on Jan 25, 2008 at 09:37:47 pm     #



http://www.cracked.com/article_15788_top-25-men-who-look-like-old-lesbians.html

posted by charlatan on Jan 25, 2008 at 09:49:39 pm     #



"Kool-Aid drinkers, mouth-breathers, has-beens, never-will-be people and so on. It's a game that means nothing. It's generally a hobby for someone to masturbate their ego anonymously"

Remove the word anonymously from that brief rant and we have a description of talk radio personalities.

posted by JJFad on Jan 25, 2008 at 10:28:13 pm     #



Where does Johnny Hildo figure in all this?

posted by Darkseid on Jan 26, 2008 at 03:01:56 am     #



Who is this Wilson guy you talk about?

posted by max on Jan 26, 2008 at 09:08:57 am     #



What I found most interesting about blogger-bashers like Wilson is that they seem to be disproportionately employed in radio and newspapers, two media genres suffering from the rise of the Internet as an advertising competitor.

I suppose that I, too, would view with suspicion a new competitor, were I employed in a field that was shrinking and losing revenue. I have little doubt that the $300-$1000 a month I rake in from blog advertising - or the hundreds of thousands of site visitors I attract per year - are hurting the revenue and traffic of traditional media outlets.

I will refrain from making insinuations about Wilson's coments as evidence that he is part of a media elite who attacks that which he fears as a methodology of arrogant territoriality and turf-protection.

:-}

posted by historymike on Jan 26, 2008 at 04:13:16 pm     #



OH, That Guy

posted by max on Jan 26, 2008 at 08:03:44 pm     #