Thom Hartman believes that we are seeing the waning of right wing talk radio and the dawn of progressive or liberal talk radio. I hope he’s right but while a pompous right wing talker is entertaining a pompous right wing talker just leaves me flat. I have yet to hear a left wing talker who didn’t try imitating the same attitude of the right wing talkers. It works with conservatives but not with the liberals.
He does seem to have a point, though. He points to Clear Channel’s Gabe Hobbs who says that liberal talk radio has to stand on its own. In the past liberal talk radio has been sandwiched in between conservative talk radio shows. The audience for the two shows aren’t the same. He says a talk radio station has to either go conservative or go liberal, doing otherwise would be like mixing country with urban. At any rate, with it looking like Clear Channel committing to all-liberal/all-day formatting with their stations facing competition from conservative talk radio stations in their market maybe we’ll see if liberal talk radio can fly.
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
