The yearly Pew report on the Media is out this morning, and it shows gtrowth in viewers, if not in revenue for TV.
Here's a quick ABC report on it...more later in the day, especially in my Broadcast Real Estate..Early Mornings. The entire report is online here.Also:
It's not unusual for special interest groups to attempt to silence talk show hosts by boycotting advertisers, usually with limited, if any, success. But this month a group of advertisers--98 of them, including some huge spenders, started boycotting shows like Rush Limbaugh.
They apparently find the heat they get for advertising with hosts who are, they write,"...likely to stir negative sentiment from a very small percentage of the listening public" is not worth the exposure.
This is pretty amazing stuff....and Rush started the ball rolling with his ridicule of the woman testifying in Congress about birth-control health care.
In another development, some feminists are calling on the FCC to ban him from the airwaves. Hold on there...ban him? By what criteria? Because he's offensive? To what percentage of the public? Because he's mean? Ever listen to some "religious" shows? Don't go down that banning road. Let the market work. If advertisers want to be tied to that kind of show, don't buy their products, and tell them so. On the other hand, support programs you like, and tell those advertisers too!
ALSO: Last week some women protested HBO comedian/talk-host Bill Maher in front of the Alabama Statehouse because Maher is performing in Huntsville.
[PLUS: The Public Radio program "This American Life" has had to recall one of its podcasts because the guest made statements that turned out to be theater, not journalism. The same guest was also a central figure in a report on CBS Sunday Morning about Apple Computer products being made in China...but producers of the program say they can find no any falsehoods in their interview.]
[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular feature of this website!]
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