Maybe it has to do with that study: "Liberals More Likely Than Conservatives To Break From Habitual Responses" Take your pick as to the messenger of that study: _Click here: ucla liberal conservative nyu OR york - Google Search_ (http://www.google.com/search?as_q=ucla+liberal+conservative++nyu+OR+york&hl=en&num=10&; btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&a s_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&as_rights=&safe=images) _Click here: ucla liberal conservative nyu OR york - Google News_ (http://news.google.com/news?as_q=ucla+liberal+conservative+&svnum=10&as_scoring=r&hl=en&; ned=tus&ie=UTF-8&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=nyu+york&as_eq=&as_drrb=q&as _qdr=&as_mind=13&as_minm=8&as_maxd=12&as_maxm=9&as_nsrc=&as_nloc=&as_occt=any) . Don't know how to do sound bites etc. on complex issues; I prefer "academic" to "tedious"; OK and sometimes too esoteric for most. But I'm not catering to sponsors or advertisers, and don't mind if most prefer to hit delete rather than read anything other than snippits. So be it. The only call-in I can stand is C-Span's Washington Journal, usually DVRed. The hosts remain neutral, and they alternate between three separate call-in lines: Dem, Pepub, and Independent. Left and right radio, 27/7 TV news call ins sensationalize too much, and never really change anyone's mind -- So what's the point except to sell soap by telling people what they want to hear. C-Span is more civil and more importantly more informative. A private company providing a public service. Ratings not important. The Public Air Waves no longer belong to the public. =================================================================== In a message dated 9/12/2007 8:36:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mario, I know you like to be tedious when it comes to facts, so I wanted to point out to you that you may be misinterpreting what "Dottos" means on Rush's show. Not saying you are being sloppy; it's a very common misconception. It's also a misconception that Rush feeds off of and uses against his detractors, and I know you wouldn't like that;-) "Ditto" does not mean that you agree with Rush or any of his views (but it is easy to see why someone who doesn't frequent his show would think that, considering the actual definition of the word Ditto). Dittoheads does not refer to some army of people who think like Rush or praise him either. Ditto is actually a matter of procedure on his show, that was started by a caller, and Rush continued it. Again it isn't substance; its a procedure. Have you ever listened to a call in show (politics, sports, etc) and the callers usually start out by saying "hello, how are you, love your show, keep up the good work, thanks for taking my call, I listen to you alot, took forever for me to get on, blah blah blah?" A lot of air time is wasted with that kind of preamble. One caller to Rush's show years ago started out saying "Ditto to what the last guy said" and then made his point. Rush thought that since air-time is so valuable, rather than waste time with the preliminaries, callers could get that out of the way by just starting with "Ditto" and getting right to the point. It gives them more air-time. It leaves more time for debate, and gets more callers on the air. Even those who are calling to disagree with him are encouraged to just say Ditto and get to it. It's nothing more than a hello. Thus, you will hear many callers say "Dittos" or "Mega-Dittos!" when they first get on. It's just procedural. Rush and fans of his show get a kick out of finding people in the media who misinterpret what "Dittos" means. They take it as confirmation that they are being knocked by someone who obviously never listens to the show. For the record, I don't listen to any of the radio shows that often, but I do read most of the books written by the hosts. Cordiali saluti, Mario ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com
