Whoa! O'reilly and Drudge are getting personal!

[Peetoeng]

<< " So you say it is ok for other to pay the radio stations for ad & air time, but somehow it is wrong when O'reilly does it? What make O'reilly differences from other pay clients?"



How the hell did you get that out of her post? The point is that this schmuck cant get airtime on his own merit so he has to bribe the stations with hundreds of thousands of dollars just to carry his program. Thats a bit different than paying for ad airtime. I think this sets a bad precedent. >>



Because the schmuck just started. That's what a new business does: bring their product and brand name to the market thru promotion to attract customers/audience. They are business, they can't do this indefinitely w/o money coming in. Why does Microsoft decide to lower price of XBOX? They are basically paying customers $100/xbox; they're loosing money, but they would get some market share for their software games.

 

[Texmaster]

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<< if you think "O'reilly" and all those talk shows are not run like a business then you are a fool. >>

Hey this is ATOT, home to fools or as we like to call them "NEFS". >>



lol

 

[Lucky]

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<< " So you say it is ok for other to pay the radio stations for ad & air time, but somehow it is wrong when O'reilly does it? What make O'reilly differences from other pay clients?"



How the hell did you get that out of her post? The point is that this schmuck cant get airtime on his own merit so he has to bribe the stations with hundreds of thousands of dollars just to carry his program. Thats a bit different than paying for ad airtime. I think this sets a bad precedent. >>



Because the schmuck just started. That's what a new business does: bring their product and brand name to the market thru promotion to attract customers/audience. They are business, they can't do this indefinitely w/o money coming in. Why does Microsoft decide to lower price of XBOX? They are basically paying customers $100/xbox; they're loosing money, but they would get some market share for their software games. >>





All of which is a wholely different arena than editorial "news" shows. Perhaps Im a bit biased because of my background but its still my opinion.

 

[SteelCityFan]

I like O'Reilly. Not afraid to ask the tuff questions, and does not let people tip toe around them.