I'm not convinced of that. Consumers have consistently shown a preference
for bland uniformity in many areas of life over the consistently original
and different. Its called McDonald's.
And Budweiser. And Walmart. And George W. Bush. (And, with respect to Dr. Brin, Stephen King and Tom Clancy and Dean Koontz.)
But it's a chicken-and-egg thing. Do people want it because they really like it, or have they been convinced by advertising, or is it the only thing available? There are places in the USA where there's not much else on the radio but what Clear Channel wants to dish out.
And business screws up all the time for all kinds of reasons. The free market may be better than alternatives, but that doesn't mean it always operates to produce the best result, or that businessmen are pure and free of any ideological taint. Or that what the free market produces is necessarily of real social utility in every case.
You don't want a liberal talk radio network to succeed so you denigrate its chances. I'm afraid it won't succeed, so I'm making excuses in advance. At least I'm honest about it.
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Tom Beck
my LiveJournal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/tomfodw/
"I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never thought I'd see the last." - Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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