I surfed the blogs and stuff for the past several days listening to the "podcasts" and looking at their TV output. First things first: there is a reason that no network or local news outlet puts overweight balding middle aged men with rotten teeth into your living room. Ugh, yuk, and poo. It's repulsive, yet that is what is populating these video bloggers. To top it off they seem to have no script, just some outline so they can bloviate around a theme. Forget it; I was an actor for a long time and I did a TV show on commodities for several years and I know how to look good: makeup to cover the blemishes, teeth whitening to cover the yellow and brown, a toupee if you're too bald, and being in shape helps. Then to sound good I knew that the attention span to look at a static image is never more than 15 seconds so I was fast, I was excited, but most of all I STUCK TO THE SUBJECT. When I talked about cattle dying in the midwest heat, I had pictures of poor little cows lying on their backs with their poor little legs in the air while I explained the horrible diseases we'd all catch if we ate these maggot drenched dead bovines. I then had a shot of the maniacs on the floor of the CBOT while I colorfully described the money that would be made by people holding cattle futures.

Now for the podcasts: fat middle aged men with bad teeth and a cheap toupee can do radio, in theory. The truth of the matter is that in radio, more than in any other medium, you are putting images into the minds of the audience. There ain't no "plane crashed into an apartment building." That's called boring and the audience turns to something else.

"While most New Yorkers were peacefully having their lunches, never expecting disaster to happen----it did." That is radio.

"A lone single engine private plane that was lurching through the sky seemingly out of control, exploded into the 72nd floor of an apartment building, detonating a firestorm of flaming gasoline into occupied apartments and sending debris crashing on to unsuspecting pedestrians five hundred feet below."

Get it? That's radio. Period.

Pictures into the mind. Some people do it naturally, most of us need to write it down. That's why Rush talks about those "liberals" in a tone of voice and with inflections that will create an image of menace and evil in our minds. Pus literally oozes out of our radios as we drive down the freeway in terror:

"Is there a liberal hiding behind that stop sign?"

These pod casters are all talk radio wannabees with nary a clue.
The media blogosphere will collapse from its own mediocrity.

Oh, and did I mention the sexless old and not so old ladies with badly colored hair and glasses together with their bad teeth and....well, you get the picture. Ugly women should stay in the bedroom doing suction excercises so they can hold onto their boyfriends. They should not turn themselves loose on helpless men who innocently surf the web looking for really nice girls doing hot sex.