{"id":3854,"date":"2008-12-22T11:22:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T16:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3854"},"modified":"2008-12-22T11:22:16","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T16:22:16","slug":"speaking-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3854","title":{"rendered":"Speaking Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bad News is&#8230;we lost the election&#8230;many times over.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/22\/business\/media\/22radio.html?_r=1&#038;8dpc\">Amid all the pressures on the radio industry<\/a>, news-talk stations see an  opportunity \u2014 and his name is Barack  Obama.<\/p>\n<p>After eight years of playing defense for President Bush, the conservatives  who dominate talk radio are back on offense.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after Mr. Obama\u2019s election, the country\u2019s most popular radio host, Rush  Limbaugh, was talking about the \u201crebirth of principled opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sean  Hannity, the second highest-rated host, quickly cast his afternoon show as  the home of \u201cconservatism in exile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Premiere Radio, a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, is projecting a  consistent audience from 2008 to 2009 as it signs on advertisers. \u201cThere\u2019s more  to talk about than there has been in a hundred years,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The good news is we may be on the verge of a Golden Age of Talk Radio and Political Blogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bad News is&#8230;we lost the election&#8230;many times over. Amid all the pressures on the radio industry, news-talk stations see an opportunity \u2014 and his name is Barack Obama. After eight years of playing defense for President Bush, the conservatives who dominate talk radio are back on offense. Hours after Mr. Obama\u2019s election, the country\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}