When will liberals learn? They don't "get" talk radio.
Most recent case: Jane Fonda's (liberal) women's radio network has gone belly up.
The "feminist" radio company whose founders include Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem failed to attract an audience and it signed off the air for good on Friday.
When the talk-radio network, called GreenStone, officially launched in September 2006, NewsMax reported that it was a "new left-wing radio network that plans to appeal to women listeners and counter the dominance of conservative talk radio."
GreenStone claimed it would deliver "de-politicized, de-polarized talk radio by women hosts for female listeners,” and Steinem said it would offer an alternative to current radio talk, which she described as "very argumentative, quite hostile, and very much male-dominated."
She also said radio was "overbalanced toward the ultra-right." But "Greenstone Media’s brand of tepid liberalism didn’t appeal to women,” Carrie Lukas, author of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex and Feminism," writes in the New York Post.
Greenstone offered interviews with such liberals as Ralph Nader, as well as segments on parenting and relationships.
But its programming was picked up by only eight affiliates in small to mid-sized markets, and its backers have now pulled the plug.
GreenStone’s CEO Susan Ness deplored the end of GreenStone as a loss for women. But Lukas observes: "Perhaps Ness should use her time off to tune in to other stations. She’ll find there are many prominent women on the airwaves – they’re just not saying what she thinks they should."
Lukas pointed to Laura Ingraham, who is heard on 340 stations and has an audience of more than 5 million, and Dr. Laura Schlessinger, with some 7.75 million listeners.
To attract large numbers of female listeners, "it will take more than having ‘all-female’ programming from an ‘all-female’ network," Lukas opines.
Liberals are boring. That's why their radio shows tank. It's hard to take seriously shows that constantly berate average Americans as stupid or rail against Christians and conservatives as more dangerous than Al Qaeda.
I get particularly insulted when people like Fonda and Steinem want to define "what women want." These are the same women who showed such enormous contempt for the defining characteristics of Western society and sneered constantly at the actual things women are interested in, from family to politics to entertainment. These clowns are every bit as bad as the pseudo-pornography of Cosmopolitan or the liberal whinging of Ms. Magazine. It's as bad as watching too much Lifetime--Television for Women or Women's Entertainment.
Maybe liberal women just can't come up with interesting programming that appeals to all women. But if conservatives like Laura Ingraham can do it, you'd think Hanoi Jane could find one interesting woman talk show host.
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