Conservative Musings

Loss of More Dead Tree Media

Today, while visiting a friend of the family's funeral, I ran into a guy I haven't seen in years.  He works for the Kentucky Post. 

It was news to me today, but it's been known since July that the Cincinnati Post and Kentucky Post are closing their doors on December 31st.  The friend and his boss were both at the funeral, and they understandably spoke about their sadness in seeing the newspaper close.  But interestingly, they also spoke about their confusion on losing business to things that aren't making money.  The "things" were online versions of news sources (newspapers, tv & radio stations, etc.) and to the news blogs.  Neither of these they saw as making any money.

I didn't really have anything to counter their thoughts on the money-making part, so I remained rather silent on that part.  It did peak my curiosity though.  Any clue on the level of any profit on news blogs?  Or other news sites?  I'm not so much interested in exact numbers, but I am curious as to some facts for the next time I'm in a conversation like this one today.

-Colonel Steve

WHAS Drops Joe Elliott Show

The Courier-Journal reports today about WHAS dropping Joe Elliott and his 9pm-midnight show.  He's being replaced by Michael Savage's "The Savage Nation" syndicated show.

I see this as one more local show being dropped for one of the big nationals, with WHAS losing more of it's local flavor.

I agree more with some of Savage's stands on issues like illegal immigration and English as the national language.  However, what little I heard of Savage while he was on WGTK for awhile actually made me rather sick.  His on-air personality has a lot to be desired in my opinion.  Leaves me wondering how he's ranked third behind Rush and Sean Hannity.

Outside of Rush and Cards games, I rarely listen to WHAS anyway.  So my opinions won't gain them a listener anyway.

-Colonel Steve