The Seattle chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight (and every Tuesday), 8PM at the Montlake Ale House, 2307 24th Avenue E.
Michael Hood of blatherWatch will be bringing along his new best friend, longtime talk radio host Allan Prell. After a brief tenure in the morning slot on 710-KIRO, Prell was suddenly fired, much to the dismay of his growing audience. Back when Prell was substituting for Dave Ross during the summer of 2004, I had the pleasure of debating Tim Eyman on his show, and man did he stick it to Timmy for not answering the questions. It was loads of fun.
I’ll be bringing a special guest too, who insists on making an early evening of it (out by 9 PM,) so I hope Prell shows up in a timely fashion.
I’m a longtime progressive, but I had the misfortune to call Prell about the tobacco smoke issue. He’s a bully, authoritarian and a prick, and I’m glad he was fired.
Allan Prell! He bugged the shit out of conservatives in my office. Sounds gooooood!
His voice has to be the most annoying thing I have ever heard. I was SO thrilled when KIRO fired him. I probably didn’t even disagree with him all that much. I just couldn’t stand his self-centered diatribes. Blatherwatch had a very good couple of articles by Pat O’Day on how to make talk-radio successful. So far, the left isn’t listening – they need to put someone on who is entertaining, not a complete ego-maniac who has to tell you every couple of minutes why they are so much smarter than you.
Maybe he should take over the evening spot vacated by that guy arrested for insurance fraud. No one is listening then, so there won’t be the issue of his voice irritating everyone.
Why are liberals so enamored with idea of creating ratings equity in talk radio? This seems like a total waste of energy on the part of the left.
Goldy, it seems like almost all the highlights of your media career are intertwined with Eyman. He is a horse’s ass, and he tries to make TIM EYMAN on equal footing with the cause he is associating with. Yet, you do those same things pretty often yourself. I’m not sure what Freud would say (any comments Sigmund?) about someone who hates another person that they share so many personality traits with.
ConservativeFisrt – I suppose it’s a case of “opposites attract.”
Is it true that Michael Moore will be at DL, delivering a lecture on men’s fashions and personal hygiene?
B. is gonna discuss when it’s politically correct to use the word “fag” and not offend anyone.
ha…
That’s great.
Glad to hear that not only the station but also the advertisers showed Prell the door. Hopefully the door did hit him in the ass on the way out.
Let me guess, now that he has been canned, all the local libs will be buying him drinks or are you passing the hat so he can pay his rent as well?
Good riddance.
did they ever find out why Prell was fired?
I don’t have a clue what the management of KIRO is thinking these days.
He had no base and his leftist, insane rhetoric caused advertisers to pull out.
Immediately after he was fired, the advertisers came back.
Wow, Con1st, thanks for the advise!
I wonder what Freud would say about the futility of reverse psychology?
@ 5
It’s ok when you are one/are friendly with them. Putz.
@ 10 – Yes, my youngest brother is one.
Comment by Donnageddon— 1/17/06 @ 2:20 pm
“I wonder what Freud would say about the futility of reverse psychology?”
Not sure what you mean by “reverse psychology”. Don’t know what Freud would say either.
I was asking an honest question. A lot of effort and money has been expended by the left to acheive big ratings in talk radio, with little results thus far. I would think that money would be better spent promoting issues that liberals believe in, i.e. ending the war in Iraq, addressing homelessness, rather than lining the pockets of egomaniacs like Al Franken, and providing a whipping boy for right wing talk radio.
Are liberals so insecure, or are such elitists, they can’t stand having conservatives do something better than they can?
I mean keep trying if you want, but would the world be dramatically changed if Al Franken had equal ratings to Rush Limbaugh? That’s the result you are looking for right?
cf @ 12
No. The overwhelming representation of one point of view on the radio is just not conducive to a healthy perspective on the issues.
Not looking for equal ratings, just balance.
Franken is a threat to Limbaugh because he’s better IMHO. He travels around the country. Talks to locals. Has guests: authors, politicians, activists etc. Limbaugh just bloviates solo most of the time.
ConservativeFirst, can we cut the Bullsh-t.
I was asking an honest question. A lot of effort and money has been expended by the left to acheive big ratings in talk radio, with little results thus far.
Honest answer, Reagen eliminated the fairness doctrine in ’87.
…“Since the demise of the Fairness Doctrine we have had much less coverage of issues,” says MAP’s Schwartzman, adding that television news and public affairs programming has decreased locally and nationally. According to a study conducted by MAP and the Benton Foundation, 25 percent of broadcast stations no longer offer any local news or public affairs programming at all (Federal Com-munications Law Journal, 5/03).
The most extreme change has been in the immense volume of unanswered conservative opinion heard on the airwaves, especially on talk radio. Nationally, virtually all of the leading political talkshow hosts are right-wingers: Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Oliver North, G. Gordon Liddy, Bill O’Reilly and Michael Reagan, to name just a few. The same goes for local talkshows. One product of the post-Fairness era is the conservative “Hot Talk” format, featuring one right-wing host after another and little else. Disney-owned KSFO in liberal San Francisco is one such station (Extra!, 3–4/95). Some towns have two.
When Edward Monks, a lawyer in Eugene, Oregon, studied the two commercial talk stations in his town (Eugene Register-Guard, 6/30/02), he found “80 hours per week, more than 4,000 hours per year, programmed for Republican and conservative talk shows, without a single second programmed for a Democratic or liberal perspective.” Observing that Eugene (a generally progressive town) was “fairly representative,” Monks concluded: “Political opinions expressed on talk radio are approaching the level of uniformity that would normally be achieved only in a totalitarian society. There is nothing fair, balanced or democratic about it.”
Twenty five years ago, your people made a substantial investment in the noise machine, an it paid off big time. It is also why you are terrified of Air America. The last thing you want is competion for your propaganda mill.
http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/ne.....1001773192
Commander – an investment that happened 25 years ago doesn’t explain why KIRO can’t find a decent center-left talk show line up. Prell was annoying, Carl Jeffers talks too much, Mike Webb is under the weather. But, of course, it is all a right wing conspiracy. Yeah, it’s Bush’s fault! He is keeping all those talented talkers from getting on the air in town!
This is a dem state – why is right-wing radio dominant?
goldy,
Man, tonight will be flatulence fest for you guys. I’ve heard Prell is full of beans.
Any chance he’ll say Nagin is a racist for suggesting New Orleans should be black? I mean, what gives? Maybe long ago slaughtered indian tribes should have dibbs, but not by design blacks…???
Janet S – besides the point and full of it as usual.
will be flatulence fest
Hmmm. Like when WrongOne comes marchin’ into HA.org with his lame rants?
Comment by Commander Ogg— 1/17/06 @ 3:18 pm
“Twenty five years ago, your people made a substantial investment in the noise machine, an it paid off big time. It is also why you are terrified of Air America. The last thing you want is competion for your propaganda mill.”
Not sure who “my people” are. Quite frankly I’m not personally threatend by Air America, I just think it’s funny that liberals think that having left-wing talk radio is so important.
For the Clueless@18 That would be “RipeOne”.
TFF @20
See? Humor! ‘Tis funny! Why is it some insist it is not?
Interesting take on the GOPP and the ‘Culture of Corruption’
http://www.democraticundergrou.....44_bw.html
Cougar @22
Read it. Almost pushed the snooze button, but am still awake. Barely…So can you tell me why that was so important?
PRR,
I dont buy that for a second, if leftist dogma was an issue, they would have canned Mike Webb, who is as left as it gets.
Prell I disagreed with and he engaged in some rhetoric, but there were also some shows I was very interested in.
I too wondered where he went.
Roger Rabbit rarely appears at Drinking Liberally, and never announces his appearances in advance due to traffic jams caused by crowds of admiring fans, papparazzi, process servers, GOP hit men, and Department of Homeland Security trucks.
Where is Mr. Cynical? Is he taking a break from HA to spend more time with his goat?
Before I forget, prr is a nazi.
RR, if you need help, I can set an alarm for prriss = Nazi alerts.
It is the least I can do for America.
Actually, it is the leasst I can do for human kind.
But the MTR = Nazi alerts will cost you extra.
I may be a liberal progressive, but I still have hope for (well regulated) capitalism.
re 8: prr: i think advertisers on radio and television who pull their advertising when they hear a program they don’t like should be permitted to do so. i also think they should be permanently barred from ever advertising in that venue ever again. these are,after all is said and done, public airwaves, and the actions of these advertisers is a form of private censorship that promotes their views and no one elses. the economy is here to serve the needs of we the people– not the other way around.
I may be a liberal progressive, but I still have hope for (well regulated) capitalism.
Comment by Donnageddon — 1/17/06 @ 11:38 pm [Er, Don, you sound like Fidel, or Hillary. Marx kind of said the same thing.]
Can yo imagine the outrage if a Republican used the “Chocolate Town” or “plantation” comments in a speech?? Democrats: always playing to the idiots!!
I listened to Prell in Baltimore. I enjoyed him even though i hated his politics. Believe it or not, there was a race horse named after him. True story. I’m not sure I would name a whole horse after him.