[lbo-talk] Americans pissed, sez Greenberg

[JBrown72073 at cs.com]

Andy F wrote:
>Whether shock jocks enable anger or vice versa kind of sounds vs.
>nurture in that you're going to have something going both ways.  But I
>think there is room for a market argument here -- nobody would choose
>to listen to all the hectoring unless it tapped into something that
>was already there.

Well, as we know, supply often creates demand.  But 'demand' is a strong word 
to use for flipping on the radio.  It's not paying demand.  And what else is 
there on radio if you want something other than music? Before Air America 
(which has a small reach) there was nothing in a commercial format that leaned any 
direction but right and frothing.  Passion is more arresting than 
passionlessness (NPR) but that doesn't mean there's a sector of the general public that 
is angry, it only means there's a sector that will listen to someone who acts 
angry.

Jenny Brown   </HTML>