Rush Limbaugh is the Patron Saint of Citizen Journalism
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From the user blogs, by Erick, because it's about Rush and we all love him in that friend sort of way. No, not quite that sort of way.
LOVE HIM OR HATE HIM, HE'S CHANGED THE WORLD!
From its humble beginnings with the advent of talk radio, to the primacy of the internet, Citizen Journalism is a wave that is sweeping the world. Ordinary people are participating in the gathering and reporting of news. They feel empowered by the removal of the shackles of the MSM, which, many feel, filters and blocks the free flow of news.
The first person to buck the mainstream mindset, Rush Limbaugh pioneered what we now know as Citizen Journalism. Paving the way for others to follow, he has become the Patron Saint of Citizen Journalism. The Hinzsight Report follows the progression of the phenomenon as ordinary citizens, disgruntled with the Mainstream Media, have taken over the process.
An excerpt from the piece:
Read on . . .
Some 20 million listeners later, it has been the success of Rush Limbaugh that has saved and transformed AM radio. He has created an entire genre known as Talk Radio. His success has spawned the careers of countless other radio personalities, from the Pit Bull Sean Hannity to the drug-burnt-out Don Imus. If Hannity takes Rush’s mandate to confront the MSM to the next level with his “final hour shootout,” Imus provides a counter balance, as his often incoherent ramblings seem to suck up to the same MSM that once prevented him a forum.
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And I can remember hating the sound of his voice, so I know what I'm talking about here, is that he's been consistently able to keep his audience, stay informative, and he's also matured as a broadcaster. His show today is more polished and more informative than it has ever been. That's why he's pulling the big audience down and Air America went bankrupt.
People looking to make a mark in the world could do a lot worse than adopt Rush Limbaugh as a role model, both in terms of his politics and his professionalism. He makes the professors positively squirm in their chairs when his name is mentioned -- but I came to realize that that's largely because he tells the truth.
Nothing is more responsible for my conservative epiphany that listening to Rush after watching events on C-Span and the MSM coverage of same and finding Rush's takes to be the truth, the whole truth, never excluding the left's view, and analyzing the parts I also, even as democrat then, deemed most significant.
Citizen Rush affirmed what I thought, debunked the MSM and Lib Dem version, and was nearly always right in his predictions.
And funny. Yes, he has gotten better too 'Ski!
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that whenever his name comes up in conversation with a lib, the first, last and only attack they can make is, "that pill-popper!"
If you can't win the debate, attack the messenger!
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he's also matured as a broadcaster. His show today is more polished and more informative than it has ever been
I think it's more the difference between Rush being 56 years old, and Rush being 36 years old. Everyone's interests change a bit over time, and with experience. I don't think the raw broadcasting skill has much to do with how he's changed. He started broadcasting at age 16. Those skills may have been better back when he could hear normally. But I think by travelling overseas, and meeting interesting people, it made him more interested in international news, for example.
I loved him when he first went national. I heard him that very first day and it was so fresh. It was also a very funny show.
Over time, I found that I cannot even stand him for ten minutes. His views have become so doctrinaire that they are almost a caricature of conservatism. His humor has become either lame or sometimes just mean. His act is just old.
I do give him credit for starting the whole talk radio phenomenon but there are others on the right who now do it much better.
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He realizes his impact in the political debate. And he tries more not to offend people. He should worry about that less! Oh, how I miss his many and varied "updates".
With his success has come access. Nobody big or important would talk to Limbaugh 20 years ago. It was basically one man and a microphone, and he didn't have really any kind of feedback then, except from his listeners.
But like anything else, his success has introduced him to a circle of influential, intelligent people who broadened his perspective. He still infuriates liberals with his voiceovers and caricatures (I can still feel the hair stand up on the back of my neck when he does his "soooo Seensitive" schtick) and he's not the world's greatest mimic in the sense of celebrity impressions.
But what he does do is find the things that he's interested in talking about and carrying them through on AM radio better than anyone else in the world. Sure, his show has brought more people in since the early days, but it's still a very tight-knit group. I don't think Snerdley will ever leave his side. I hope not. I used to think it was all because of Rush's fax machine, but I was wrong. It's what he DOES with that big stack of stuff that makes the magic.
His audience has also matured and become more sophisticated over the years. There are people that I've known who have listened to Limbaugh from almost Day One and he's evolved along with them. I never realized how much effort and thought that took until I tried it myself, and Rush has mastered it. He's a natural. And that's why the Donks hate him so much.
nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
I'm just guessing, but if he did win he'd probably turn it down, given the recent winners.
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Well, so has AlGore...I can't beleive that one!
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The Drudgereport has a link to his Nobel Peace Prize nomination.
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Is how he overcame the smear campaign against him to achieve what he has.
When Rush first started broadcasting even conservatives wouldn't listen to him. I remember when he was recommended to me for the first time I replied "The man is a hateful racist why would I listen". The libs had spread their poison well. If you can't win ridicule.
When I first listened to him what an awakening. His show contained none of the hate, just ideas. The things libs always said they were tolerant of and wanted a market of.
Veritas magna est et praevalet.
My friends brother recommended I listen to him about 15 years ago after he found out I was conservative (some of us were still in the closet then, politically). At the time, I thought he was a conceited blowhard. Over the years, however, I've developed an appreciation for what Rush does best. He makes people THINK.
After every major event, I make sure I listen to him. It really gets my mind going, even if I don't agree with him.
Got hooked on him listening in the car with my dad many years ago. He's still "the Godfather," as Neal Boortz says, although I honestly prefer two other shows to his (Glenn Beck and, far and away my personal favorite, Michael Medved).
When my mom would talk about hitting the road before the mid-day "rush hour', I thought she meant we had to be in the car so we didn't miss the beginning of The Rush Limbaugh Show. I also believed it was named "Rush Hour" in his honor, and that everyone was in their cars so that they too could listen to him.
What can I say, I was seven.
William F. Buckley, Ronald Reagan and Rush Limbaugh in no particular order.
in the 80s, at a time in my life when I was finding out what life was all about...so I thought...having been indoctrinated by public school, MSM, and popular culture, along comes Rush. I was running from my conservative Father and not really seeing the big changes in our country that the Reagan Revolution was creating. His way of pointing out the absurdity of the left really messed up my 2 decades of state ran brainwashing. He took my lemming like mind and taught me to see through all of the propaganda. Thank You, Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh, and my Father.
And everyone in academic circles hates him for it. As he said to Erick in his interview here, a decade ago Rush Limbaugh was pretty much *it* in terms of Conservative opinion in the world. Camille Paglia broke ranks and actually said a few good words about him, and of course got cast from the Academy and down to the sodomites for saying so. Then Drudge came along.
The academic opinion about Limbaugh hasn't changed -- I still consider it to be a distinct liability for any undergraduate or graduate student to mention him in idle conversation with a professor -- but he's no longer alone, and he broke the path for all of us.
We all owe him a big debt of gratitude, and frankly I wish he'd give Erick another shot at an interview.