SMALL TOWN TALK RADIO CAN INDUCE MENTAL ILLNESS OR DEEP SLEEP

LOCAL TALK RADIO CAN BE EXASPERATING
The mind numbing experience of small town radio.

I’ve refrained from call-in talk radio for over a year, and today I realized [or was reminded] why. It’s a mind-numbing experience when your talking head [show host] is too dull or unwilling to engage in any in-depth conversation.

Maybe it’s the 24 minutes of interruption from ads, public service announcements, traffic and news and other things that break up the hour. A ‘long’ segment is about 6 minutes so in-depth discussion of any topic will probably require the caller to be ‘held over’ 2 or 3 times.

When the most powerful retort the host can offer is, “Well, that’s your opinion.” you know you’re in for a frustrating or ‘yawning’ experience. When the talking head openly invites rude loonies and struggles to maintain a decent vocabulary you know you’ve got small-town talk radio.

It makes my @ss hurt. Maybe I’ve learned a lesson or two from today’s experience.

Sadly, that’s how it is in a small town. They’d never get away with this in a major market, or one of even a million people. It’s a small price to pay for living in a peaceful and safe market.