{"id":55012,"date":"2015-09-02T13:39:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T18:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55012"},"modified":"2015-09-02T13:39:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T18:39:46","slug":"to-be-fair-most-of-us-had-forgotten-brian-lambert-was-still-being-published-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55012","title":{"rendered":"To Be Fair, Most Of Us Had Forgotten Brian Lambert Was Still Being Published, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone pointed it out in the comment section; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/media\/2015\/09\/i-wanted-make-political-statement-qa-former-radio-host-jason-lewis\">Brian Lambert interviewed Jason Lewis in the MinnPost earlier today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE.png\" alt=\"DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE\" width=\"320\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE.png 320w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>MP:\u200b But even The Patriot [AM 1280] is now all syndication. They used to have local bloggers with shows ripping the feckless liberals and all the usual stuff. Now, it\u2019s all mailed in.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>JL:<\/strong>\u200b \u200bIt\u2019s the only thing they can afford. They don\u2019t have the budget for anything else. The economics of the industry requires a massive paradigm shift. And, as I say, it\u2019s due to mismanagement, technology and debt, the over\u00adbuying of radio stations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lambert exhibits the attention to detail he always showed when he was the <i>Pioneer Press&#8217;\u00a0<\/i>&#8220;broadcasting reporter&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>AM1280 was\u00a0<em>always\u00a0<\/em>syndicated. \u00a0The Northern Alliance started three\u00a0years after the station went on the air &#8211; almost two years before AM1130 went all talk, before Jason Lewis left the Twin Cities for Charlotte much less before he came back and bumped Lambert&#8217;s show from the 1130&#8217;s lineup.<\/p>\n<p>And unlike both of them, we&#8217;re still here. \u00a0Different group of us, to be sure &#8211; but we&#8217;re still alive and kicking.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;d love to invite Lambert on the show to prove it. \u00a0But I have no idea where to find him, or for that matter, whether he still really exists or not.<\/p>\n<p>If you know where he&#8217;s at, please forward my invite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone pointed it out in the comment section; Brian Lambert interviewed Jason Lewis in the MinnPost earlier today: MP:\u200b But even The Patriot [AM 1280] is now all syndication. They used to have local bloggers with shows ripping the feckless liberals and all the usual stuff. Now, it\u2019s all mailed in. JL:\u200b \u200bIt\u2019s the only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-narn","category-talk-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55012","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55013,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55012\/revisions\/55013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}