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In reply to the discussion: When are Progressive Billionnaires going to use their wealth to buy media companies and keep them [View all]certainot
(9,090 posts)the biggest problem the last 30 years. the other media are more notable for repeating the lies or , like major media, ignoring the truth
waiting for billionaires or millionaires is the wrong tactic. it would help but talk radio is the major prob and there's an easy fix for that.
all other rw media is visible and is often challenged. those other media forms, like fox, rw internet, rw social media has a democratic counterpart.
only rw radio can do the unchallenged repetition needed to sell these vast alternate realities the modern trumpers operate on. the other media forms piggyback that repetition, whoever gets it started, whether it's a rw think tank here or in another country.
two ways to get the radio ad agencies to start democratizing and breaking up the talk radio monopoly:
advances in artificial intelligence make if easy to automatically record, transcribe, and analyze large acts of talk radio without listening. same on a smaller scale to identify advertisers, and the sports teams that endorse those statiosn, and associate them with content. MIT media lab prototyped using it to analyze billions of words of talk radio for a non political purpose and that could be modified.
the other thing is for democrats to start complaining to their university (like these 87 at fakenewsradio.org) and pro sports teams to get them to look for apolitical alternatives to broadcast sports on. one school could start a snowball rolling.
either of those two, or especially both those tactics would scare the crap out of the radio ad industry and they'd have to figure out a way to fix the problem before ether lost an avalanche of advertisers.