Wednesday, March 10, 2004
THIS IS SO LAME...BUT WHAT THE HECK
I like to lead conversations...have a thought process, an opinion, something to get the ball rolling other than a simple poll question on the radio. I'll leave it to the lightweights in our midst to do that kind of radio...I call it, "trolling for callers."
That's when a host (who usually is afraid of having an opinion that might lose one of his 5 listeners) fields a 3-hour radio show with nothing but questions. He/she forgets that people tire of polls quickly. But it also leads to the belief by the host that the opinions expressed in a poll question on the radio MEAN something...they don't. The first rule I learned in talk radio school was about this...your ability to generate calls is no indication of your talent. Your ability to generate GOOD calls is.
"What do you think about..." is the only thought starter they have. It's really funny when they call it a "conversation" and pretend that their ability to create a question is somehow solving some big issue. It gets even funnier when they take both sides of virtually every caller...never really disagreeing with anything since they have no core beliefs.
With that said, I'm going to conduct a little experiment. In all likelihood, we probably won't get John Kerry to appear on a show like mine or any other "confrontational" program at length. It's not that he's afraid of what I might ask him, he's afraid of the lack of control he would have over YOU. That's why you'll only find them doing their alleged "town hall" meetings where they make sure that only dummies get to participate.
BUT IF WE DID, what ONE QUESTION would you ask in order to provoke an answer that might help make or break someone's decision to vote for him? I know you folks can do this, because generally, talk radio listeners are more educated that the average music station audience...so give it a try. I'll post them as I get them...
But I'LL make the final determination of whether or not they're worthy of posting...because that's what a good host would do.
EMAIL THEM HERE
OR HERE
I like to lead conversations...have a thought process, an opinion, something to get the ball rolling other than a simple poll question on the radio. I'll leave it to the lightweights in our midst to do that kind of radio...I call it, "trolling for callers."
That's when a host (who usually is afraid of having an opinion that might lose one of his 5 listeners) fields a 3-hour radio show with nothing but questions. He/she forgets that people tire of polls quickly. But it also leads to the belief by the host that the opinions expressed in a poll question on the radio MEAN something...they don't. The first rule I learned in talk radio school was about this...your ability to generate calls is no indication of your talent. Your ability to generate GOOD calls is.
"What do you think about..." is the only thought starter they have. It's really funny when they call it a "conversation" and pretend that their ability to create a question is somehow solving some big issue. It gets even funnier when they take both sides of virtually every caller...never really disagreeing with anything since they have no core beliefs.
With that said, I'm going to conduct a little experiment. In all likelihood, we probably won't get John Kerry to appear on a show like mine or any other "confrontational" program at length. It's not that he's afraid of what I might ask him, he's afraid of the lack of control he would have over YOU. That's why you'll only find them doing their alleged "town hall" meetings where they make sure that only dummies get to participate.
BUT IF WE DID, what ONE QUESTION would you ask in order to provoke an answer that might help make or break someone's decision to vote for him? I know you folks can do this, because generally, talk radio listeners are more educated that the average music station audience...so give it a try. I'll post them as I get them...
But I'LL make the final determination of whether or not they're worthy of posting...because that's what a good host would do.
EMAIL THEM HERE
OR HERE
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