Lowbrow conservatism, name-calling, neocons, bullying bluster, blind loyalty to George Bush and the abandonment of elitism on talk radio have allowed carny barkers to run away with the right. Although we've said similar stuff many times, this time it's an influential conservative magazine. (...

~~ KUOW, not KIRO is No.1 in the ratings in Seattle as P-I's Bill Virgin has reported. We hope Dori Monson (KIRO m-f, 12-3p) has made a correction, after the strutting, crowing segment he did, taking the credit for KIRO's success. Has Steve Scher (KUOW m-f, 9-11) usurped Dori as the new &quo...

It is local programming, and we know things are weird at KVI... but Peter Weissbach??? We confirmed it today that Peter Weissbach, the humor-free gypsy-prince of talk radio past will return to KVI -- he's finagled a one-hour, m-f, show starting Feb. 9. They'll steal an hour from the syndicat...

(photo: Kirby, Carleen & Matt in better days) They describe KVI as a "hellhole," a lifeless, atmosphere where creativity, vision, and paranoia has replaced hope, faith and charity. Staffers are discouraged, bored, fearful, and disheartened. Many have been laid off or fired already -- l...

Dr. Laura, is being tossed out of the Seattle market once again. In another admirable but probably pointless re-shuffling of the deck chairs, KVI will put Dennis Miller in the 9a-noon slot, in early February. Maybe they decided one negative, sharp-toothed scold (Laura Ingraham. m-f, 3-6p) was enough...

Michael Medved, The Wizard of Politics and Pop Culture, has written a most enlightened and realistic column for USA Today, We loved it because it bolsters our own views, but also because it adds some cogent and brilliant points even we hadn't thought of. (And typical of the Ivy League Michael, (...

Dennis Miller, the former SNL comedian, sports caster turned libertarian, security conservative radio talk host and will take over KVI's 9 ta noon slot in early February. He left the Seattle market when KKOL flipped to business talk early this month. The KVI slot is now filled with Dr. Laura Sch...

Talk radio and the Republican Party are intertwined, and both are sinking, and their problems are mirror images of each other. We've told you many times: neither has had much success enticing and hanging onto young, black, or Latino people nor any other than the fast-fading demographic than whit...

News outlets report today that Fisher Communications turned down an unsolicited $390 million buy-out by an unnamed company in April. They were offered offered $43-45 a share for Fisher's approximate 8.7 million shares of stock, which openedat about $35 Monday on Nasdaq. "In consultation with ou...

As we always say, we like Dave Boze. He used to work on an Xmas tree farm; he's always called us "mister; "he went to Hillsdale College; he treats his elders with respect, and is right-wing as Ragnar Redbeard. Good man, nice guy, but we kid Dave Boze. (photo: Dave and wife Peggy -- he's no...