{"id":17095,"date":"2011-01-06T23:20:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T05:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17095"},"modified":"2011-01-07T11:12:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T17:12:14","slug":"to-air-is-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17095","title":{"rendered":"To Air Is Human"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps it’s the circle of radio life.\u00a0 The First Team of the Northern Alliance gets shown the door<\/a>…<\/p>\n

…and Mark Dayton takes to the air<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Gov. Mark Dayton plans to do a governor’s radio show soon.<\/p>\n

“I wish I could be on the air somewhere tomorrow,” Dayton said. “I can’t wait to get on the air. It is just a question of where and going through the proper procedure.<\/p>\n

Dayton having a weekly radio show follows a tradition of past governors. Both Govs. Jesse Ventura and Tim Pawlenty had Friday morning shows on WCCO that were required, and sometimes interesting, listening for political geeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So gubernatorial radio will go from vain, to vapid, to…uh, is there a synonym for odd that starts with ‘v’?<\/p>\n

Ventura and Pawlenty’s shows had their moments, but “fireside chats” they were not.\u00a0 Ventura used the forum as a ricktey soapbox from which to deliver a\u00a0folding chair to his opponents\u00a0while Pawlenty’s often politics-lite interviews were professional but dryer than a Martini in the Sahara.\u00a0 Unless Dayton wants to reminisce on his Haight-Ashburyesque days, 60 minutes of dead air might be more entertaining.<\/p>\n

MITCH ADDS:\u00a0 While First Ringer would have no reason to know this, I’ll add that the First Team wasn’t “shown the door”.\u00a0 There were some revenue-driven schedule changes; management and John and Brian couldn’t agree on a change to the First Team’s schedule that worked for everyone.\u00a0\u00a0 There were no aspersions cast on either side; the logistics and timing for both the station and John and Brian couldn’t be made to match up.<\/p>\n

It stinks; I was one of the First Team’s biggest fans.\u00a0 But them’s the breaks in Freebie Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps it’s the circle of radio life.\u00a0 The First Team of the Northern Alliance gets shown the door… …and Mark Dayton takes to the air: Gov. Mark Dayton plans to do a governor’s radio show soon. “I wish I could be on the air somewhere tomorrow,” Dayton said. “I can’t wait to get on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,105,63,4,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe-and-everything","category-first-ringer","category-lefty-alt-media","category-media","category-talk-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17095"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17121,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17095\/revisions\/17121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}