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(9,090 posts)bought up much larger ABC and started setting limbaugh up with the classic style PSYOPS now known as rw talk radio
simple mathematical fact: at a cheap $1000/hr x 15hrs/day x 1200 stations, rw talk radio is worth 4.68 BIL$/ year or 390MIL$ FREE/month for pro republican wall st propaganda - for 30 years, rewriting reagan history and selling war
advertising dollars are icing. it's the perfect weapon, and the left continues to ignore it even tho 270 of those limbaugh stations and probbaly 30- 40% of all rw radio stations depend heavily on our 'liberal' universities including these 90!
ignoring it has now given us trump but the global warming denial makes ignoring it the biggest political mistake in history
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-libmedia.htm (a bit dated but amazing)
excerpts:
One of Capital City's early founders was William Casey, who would later become Ronald Reagan's Director of the CIA. At the time of Casey's nomination, the press expressed surprise that Reagan would hire a businessman whose last-known intelligence experience was limited to OSS operations in World War II. The fact is, however, that Casey had never left intelligence. Throughout the Cold War he kept a foot in both worlds, in private business as well as the CIA. A history of Casey's business dealings reveals that he was an aggressive player who saw nothing wrong with bending the law to further his own conservative agenda. When he became implicated as a central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, many Washington insiders considered it a predictable continuation of a very shady career.
There are about 11,000 radio stations in the U.S., and Capital Cities/ABC is by far the largest player. Either through outright ownership or the sale of numerous services, they reach about half the radio stations in America, and this number is growing. With the Fairness Doctrine repealed, Capital Cities was able in 1988 to begin broadcasting one-sided editorials on conservatism. ABC Radio Network President Edward McLaughlin scoured the nation's radio stations for conservative talent, and his search led him to Sacramento, to a little known disc-jockey named Rush Limbaugh. Rush had attracted an audience with his vigorous and spirited defense of Oliver North during the Iran-Contra hearings. McLaughlin brought him to New York City for a one-month "on-air" trial at Capital Cities/ABC's flagship radio station, WABC. For the next two years, ABC put him on the fast track, handling all his marketing, advertising and promotion. For legal purposes, and to protect ABC's image of supposed objectivity, Rush formed his own media company, Excellence in Broadcasting.
ironically, many NY OWS protestors probably went right through union station where WABC was broadcasting syracuse university endorsed RW talk radio bulllshit attacking OWS protestors and distorting the message and egging on the cops.