Why does 99.5 FM hate New Orleans?
14th September 2009
This might be a good question for the FCC to answer.
Just how is it that an out-of-town company, Clear Channel, which sponsors so many nationally-syndicated voices of hatred against New Orleans on our airwaves, is allowed to retain its license to broadcast in New Orleans?
If station managers truly respected local input on programming, and if the FCC truly allowed local input on licensing decisions, we might actually be able to find public squares on the airwaves where hatred and demagoguery is replaced with informed, civil discourse.
September 14th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Because most of there listening audience does as well.
September 14th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
I use to listen to 99.5 when it had local programs on. I quit when they put on Rush Limbaugh, the greatest hater-liar of them all. I switched to WWL but now it too is full of hate. (at least during the morning drive.) Now I listen to MD Sitius radio in the car and get my local news from TV. The right wing (and I am a Republican) has gone off the deep end. I hope something happens soon to restore some sanity.
September 14th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Excellent question.
Excellent answer by Celcus.
September 14th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
I miss the Rock of New Orleans.
The only talk radio I can stand listening to is NPR and the Think Tank, well when Garland doesn’t have a Quack on or he miss understands scientific consensus.
September 15th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Or is it because the format attracts white trash ignorance from surrounding parishes?
September 15th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
I feel sorry for the people who are getting screwed more than they know who is doing it to them and how.
Problem is that Fox News and Hate radio knows how to appeal to these people. It is just easier for them to believe that a poor person on welfare is their biggest enemy.
You need to watch this. The entire video is people at this weekend’s Teabagger protest speaking, and explaining why they came to protest, what they believe in. Towards the second half, the interviewer starts explaining the truth to people, and it’s fascinating to watch their reaction. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUPMjC9mq5Y&feature=player_embedded
September 16th, 2009 at 8:06 am
That guy is a Class-A douche nozzle, his haircut not only compliments his douchiness, it defines it. He has a point about corruption and everyone knowing the levy’s were bad, but he defeats his own purpose by exhuming the corpse of Van Jones to make his point.
September 18th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Beth Rickey, former GOP state leader from Louisiana who went undercover to expose David Duke’s ties to neo-Nazis, dies broke and homeless because medical bills took all her savings. “She was the bravest woman I’ve ever known,” said a journalist who worked with her.
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Elizabeth-Ann–Beth–Rickey—1953-2009-David-Duke-nemesis-dies
I hate the fact that this woman, who by all accounts is a hero, died broke and homeless because she couldn’t afford her medical bills. This is how the U.S. treats people that save it from Nazis. Actual Nazis. Pathetic.
September 20th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
The Return of McCarthyism
Our country is unraveling. The Republicans are stoking it. The Democrats are watching it happen, and even to some degree enabling it by not standing up and doing anything about it. This, I fear, is how great democracies perish.
The video is 9 minutes long. Once you get past the first 20 seconds, it’s a must watch. http://www.americablog.com/2009/09/return-of-mccarthyism.html
September 20th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
a commment at that last link… “Due to high rates of illiteracy at the time of the genocide, radio was an important way for the government to deliver messages to the public. Two radio stations key to inciting violence before and during the genocide were Radio Rwanda and Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM). In March 1992, Radio Rwanda was first used in directly promoting the killing of Tutsi in Bugesera, south of the national capital Kigali. Radio Rwanda repeatedly broadcast a communiqué warning that Hutu in Bugesera would be attacked by Tutsi, a message used by local officials to convince Hutu that they needed to protect themselves by attacking first. Led by soldiers, Hutu civilians and members of the Interahamwe subsequently attacked and killed hundreds of Tutsi.”
src: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:47 am
You can’t shout down a rising tide.
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:03 am
WalkScore = 100 !
After diligent searching in New Orleans for ONE address that got a perfect 100 on Walkscore
www.walkscore.com
I found ONE !
800 Bourbon Street
Not only is this on Bourbon Street (& St. Ann), but the oldest gay bar in the USA, Oz, is at 800 Bourbon :-)
Given the average blood alcohol levels on Bourbon Street, it is best if EVERYTHING is within walking distance.
Best Hopes for Walkable communities,
Walkscore lists only seven bars within 0.09 miles of 800 Bourbon, but they missed several (including OZ !!)
March 3rd, 2010 at 9:12 am
what happened to Schroeder?