HELLO! I've spent the last 12 hours on on and off working on blog stuff, and only the second half of those were in the daytime. I'm so great at life. I'd like to apologise for not blogging these last two nights, I was setting you up for the inevitable disappointment that'll follow saturday. I also needed sleep (like now) and am lazy. So to preserve your respect for me, please imagine you just travelled two days back in time by stealing a time machines from the Channel Nine studio.
I'd like to also say that today I have our first ever D.I.D A Mess podcast. So to you present-dwelling naysayers, "Quiet, you!"
NOT MANY DAYS TO GO: SAVE THE SHOCK JOCKS
One of the most heartbreaking stories about the this year's campaign is that while a lot of media outlets have rode the gnarly election wave to a sunny beach of financial success, one rashie-clad radio station has failed to do so. I am of course talking about Melbourne Talk Radio, Steve "poisoned dwarf" Price's rightwing talk-back station that debuted this year. If you don't know Steve Price, he's that guy who frowns a lot on the 7pm project on Tuesdays. Other presenters on MTR include my biggest unhero, Marie Andrewnette Bolt, and intellectual heavyweight Sam Newman. Apparently Jason Akermanis even has a gig there, what he has to talk about I have no idea. I assume on Saturday they'll have close electoral analysis by Ben Cousins.
But despite this stellar line up, MTR has an average of audience of 8000. No I didn't leave out a zero. That's almost as few listeners as there were boat people arrivals in the last five years. It would be a lot cheaper for them just to gather the audience into the studio carpark and yell at them through a megaphone. Personally I think it's appalling that a fantastic Melbourne based radio station with most of it's shows syndicated from Sydney should suffer like that. So that's why, in solidarity, I've decided to give them a tiny bit more publicity by posting an excerpt from "Brian Jackson's BATTLEZONE: With Brian Jackson", my favourite MTR program. Enjoy.
~Damacus
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