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It was a cautious President Obama who thoughtfully laid out his version of the current financial situation facing the counry.
In his second TV interview within five days, the President approached the ’60Minutes’ interview on a much different plane than he did The Tonight Show. Sunday night’s interiew was serious business. Leno’s show was fun with a few semi-serious moments.
Asked if he would accept Tim Geithner’s resignation if he were to offer it... the President said NO!
And, President Obama had some words of advice for financial folks who live and work in NYC... "get out of New York", he said suggesting they would benefit from seeing how the rest of the counry is living these days.
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Here’s the big question Monday following the interview. Is the nervous laugh of the President getting him in trouble? Many NewsTalkers this morning are saying it appears he’s not serious enough. It’s actually something we’ve heard him do as long as he’s been on the public scene and campaigning the past two years leading up to the election. BUT, is it something he needs to be much more careful about? Is this just the wrong time for jokes about gallows humor?
Ever wonder what we’re talking about when it’s not politics? Why ourselves, of course...
Talk Radio Hosts’ Favorite Topics: The Election (and Themselves): In a heated and historic election year, the campaigns and politics accounted for 60% of the radio talk newshole in 2008. Nothing else came close.
But the No. 2 subject said something fundamental about the talk business. It wasn’t an economy in meltdown or foreign events, with U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
No, the talkers’ second-favorite subject (for the second year in a row) often involved invoking the first person pronoun. Conversations about the media, much of which focused on the hosts themselves, accounted for almost one-tenth of the talk newshole in the year.
In a medium that is very much about the person behind the microphone connecting with listeners, self-referential comments often come with the territory for conservative talkers Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Michael Savage and their liberal counterparts Ed Schultz and Randi Rhodes
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Don Imus has had a long and highly varied life in the radio business. Small market to Network Syndication and unknown to too well known.
In any event, it’s generally acknowledged the I-Man’s better days are now well behind him andhe’s no longer capable of doing what he once did. In that case why all the hubbub about what he said the other day?
Pure foolishness - that’s it. Jay Severin does a great job in the Boston market and Imus traveling up there and threatening Severin was just do much B.S. It’s OVER!
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It took no time at all for the House to pass legislation that calls for BIG taxes on Wall Street/AIG bonuses.
Agree - Disagree? Many Republicans voted NO.
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What in the world was Imus thinking? It happened because there is multiple confirmation and that’s simply not a good thing.
Death threat from Imus against Jay Severin on St. Pat’s Day?
The Boston Herald reports the off-air exchange of words, and the Imus alleged threat came during a meeting when both were on a stage together during Imus’ St. Patrick’s Day broadcast.
The Herald says Imus ripped into Severin because last year, the WTKK-FM (96.9) host said he’s no longer appearing on the I-man’s show. The reason? He was tired of the insults.
Imus told Severin to get off the (expletive) stage or “I’m going to shoot you. Do you (expletive) understand what I’m saying to you? You get off this stage right now or I’m going to shoot you.”
The exchange was confirmed to the Herald by Severin’s agent, and an Imus spokesman.
WTKK parent company Greater Media released a statement calling the Imus remarks to “shoot” everin “unfortunate, and we trust that he will rectify the situation.”
The question everyone seems to be asking is whether Secretary Geithner’s time has come to bow out or is it simply an opportunity that Republican’s are working for all they possibly can. Is it opportunistic shenannigans? Or, was Tim simply the right guy put in place at the wrong time?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/18/rep-mack-calls-geithner-resign-fired-aig-bonuses/
There is good news for NewsTalkers...
New Coleman study stays spoken word can thrive in PPM - especially all-news and sports.
The broad average for spoken word rises when comparing 80+ stations under their first four People Meter months, to their previous four diary quarterlies. Their 12+ AQH share improved from 2.1 to a 2.4, says Jon Coleman at last weekend’s R&R Talk Radio Seminar.
Spoken word stations do a smidgeon better than that in 25-54s and 35-64s. (Particularly in morning drive.) And the biggest contributors, format-wise, are all-news stations and sports. While the stations defined as “news/talk” - which I’m guessing are mostly “talk” - indexed at a 102, pretty much even with their diary numbers.
Public radio stations that specialize in news/talk/information index at a 94 - worse than the diary. (All-news indexes at 140 and sports at 134.) So why the increases? Coleman Insights says it’s mostly a matter of better TSL, Time Spent listening. It’s true the cume rises compared to the diary, but less than it does for some other formats.
But even with the cume and TSL gains, Coleman says the better average share for the broad spoken word category “does not result in rank improvement.” Coleman’s been producing an ongoing series titled Mapping the DNA of PPM”, and the “spoken-word” pdf is here.
(Thanks, Tom Taylor - )
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