Bob Alexander: The Persistence of Memory

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talk radioThe Elite surround themselves with their peers, minions, and court jesters. Their minions are expendable, the jesters replaceable, and periodically they wage war against their peers. But … The Elite can always agree on this:

They never support anything that would thwart whatever it is they want to do. And they want what all gangsters have always wanted … more.

Yesterday I read the latest at the Brilliant at Breakfast Blog: The rise and fall of prog-talk radio
(http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.ca/2013/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-prog-talk-radio.html)
She extensively quotes from a column at Truthout.org written by Peter B. Collins.

An Insider's View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution (http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14355-an-insiders-view-of-the-progressive-talk-radio-devolution)

The blogger and Peter B. got some of it right but most of it wrong.

Disclaimer: The optimists say the glass is half full. Pessimists say the glass is half empty. I tend to think the glass is half empty and we’re all gonna die.

But I digress …

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