Passing Thoughts on Talk Radio

So, with Don Imus no longer on the airwaves, the logical question to ask is “what’s next?”  What all of this is examined, twenty years from now, the major mistake that Imus made will be determined as giving Sharpton credibility by showing up to Sharpton’s radio show on his knees, and begging forgiveness.

First of all, who carries Sharpton’s radio show, in any event?  I wonder if it’s possible for the remainder of America to pressure whatever sponsors he has to remove him from the airwaves?

Sharpton seems to be leveraging the idea that the electromagnetic spectrum has always been considered to be public property.  So enamored with that idea was he, in fact, that he seemingly forgot that MSNBC is a CABLE channel, and thereby not on broadcast television. That point aside, however, one wonders, if what we’re dealing with here, isn’t the death of terrestrial broadcasting as we have known it.  I grant that sounds fairly dramatic, but I’d like you to consider something;

Given the polling data cited by Billy Beck yesterday, where the vast majority of Americans polled, don’t want Imus fired, perhaps the question ought to be asked, who left Al Sharpton in charge of what can and cannot be set on the radio?  From what does he attain the moral authority to make those kind of decisions for the rest of us? With such a person in charge of what can and cannot be said, or even the kind of ideologue that Sharpton is, being in charge, even if it isn’t Sharpton himself , will the end of fact be driving listeners to such outlets as satellite radio, and the Internet as speech on Terrestrial radio becomes increasingly controlled by the far left?
Which of itself raises the next logical question;

Imus is gone, the beast has been fed. The problem with feeding the beast, hoping he’ll go away, is that after a time, he will come back, being hungry again.  When he does come back he’s going to be much stronger.  So it is in this case.
Before long, so strengthened, the beast will now go about attacking other voices on traditional radio.  Once the demons of talk radio are under control, does anybody even slightly doubt that the Internet will be next on their list of things to control?