"Freeping" From The Left

Conservative Station Hijacked?

Liberals Claim Talk Radio Prank Success


If lefty 'net activists were to pull a stunt on a conservative talk radio station, you'd expect outrage from the Radio Equalizer, right?

And if for some reason, I wasn't furious about it, why would that be? The full moon?

Maybe it's because there simply wasn't a better way to teach Milwaukee's WISN-AM a lesson about running self-destructive contests.

It appears liberal Daily Kos readers "freeped" (I've never before heard this term applied to lefties) an online listener poll to determine which rank amateur would win a contract to host WISN's morning show.

Some managerial genius got the idea that anybody can be pulled off the street to host a successful talk show. Contest entrants got tryouts (professionals excluded) and were gradually eliminated.

Experienced programmers know it takes experience, training and skill to successfully host a radio talk show. It's a craft honed over many years and Milwaukee is not a minor league market.

Kos, considered the world's largest blog based on readership, put out a call to stuff the ballot box for the most liberal contestant: Nicole Devin, a pro-abortion Democrat. She won.

Jim Cuprisin of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has the story here.

Kos poster ColdFusion04, who took credit for the dubious "victory", is busy gloating about having thrown a conservative radio station off course and claims many on the right are "outraged".

Who? I don't think many on the right have even heard about it.

My only outrage: that I didn't think of this myself.

Station management says the show will be apolitical, so it won't matter. I think that's a CYA effort, since it's a conservative station, with the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Mark Belling, one of his regular fill-in hosts.

Now, it'll be like a country station playing hip-hop in morning drive.

It's amazing to watch talk radio self-destruct with profoundly stupid moves. It's like trying to sell K Cars, Yugos and AMC Pacers while the new media competition rolls out luxury models.

Just a few years ago, it was talk radio producing a superior alternative to newspapers, now it's responding to new media innovations by flushing itself down the toilet.

I'd bet the farm WISN's morning show ratings bite the dust because of this boneheaded contest.

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