The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Comedy is taken care of by a free market.
The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.
For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous.
We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.
For free-speech principles to be reinforced and free-market ideas to win the day, more people are going to have to stand up and be heard.
Reporters now are better educated than the crowd I knew when I broke in. We still had guys shaped by Prohibition and the Depression, so the news business still had badly paid people who loved it for the life, because every day was different.
No one wants to risk a million dollars on a few laughs. The big, flashy commercials are out. The soft sell is out.
Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.
I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.
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