Party realignment ending or just starting?

[Kinser79]

(05-23-2016, 05:42 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Another founder of trash talk was Paul Harvey. He did return to an avuncular style so that he wasn't pure unlistenable rubbish.. but he was reading folksy trivia or trying to make ad copy seem as if news (really, really bad practice; I'd insist that a radio host not use his voice for ad copy on his show) between excoriations of liberals and counterculture types. Maybe that was GI style... go folksy to give the appearance of backing off.

PBR, I know you're clueless but this takes the cake. Paul Harvey mostly read the news in a folksy way. As for reading ad copy in his own voice this was common practice in the days before recorded commercials--IE before tape was cheap and the machines that played said tape was cheap. Since that didn't happen until about the 1970s, GIs were used to radio announcers reading ad copy on the air in their own voice. It was a reality created by the limits of the technology of the time.

I imagine in a century some Neo-Prophet just like you is going to say some nonsense along the lines of some now nameless Millie media person didn't do ads in holographic form.