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Title: Hmm. Prominent Conservative Radio Hosts Planted Scripted Actors Among Callers
Source: Crooks And Liars
URL Source: http://crooksandliars.com/susie-mad ... minent-conservative-radio-host
Published: Mar 5, 2011
Author: Susie Madrak
Post Date: 2011-03-05 20:44:54 by Original_Intent
Keywords: Pills, Vannity, Propaganda, Radio
Views: 968
Comments: 62

Hmm. Prominent Conservative Radio Hosts Planted Scripted Actors Among Callers

By Susie Madrak

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Well, looky here! From the Columbia Journalism Review:
Well, here’s a shocker: Some of the people who phone in to talk radio shows (that caller with the pitch-perfect rant, provocative comment or burning question) may actually be hired actors reading from scripts. I’m not an angry listener, but I play one on radio!

Via Tablet Magazine:
If [the actor] passed the audition, he would be invited periodically to call in to various talk shows and recite various scenarios that made for interesting radio. He would never be identified as an actor, and his scenarios would never be identified as fabricated—which they always were.
“I was surprised that it seemed so open,” the actor told me in an interview. “There was really no pretense of covering it up.”
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Curious, the actor did some snooping and learned that Premiere On Call was a service offered by Premiere Radio Networks, the largest syndication company in the United States and a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, the entertainment and advertising giant. Premiere syndicates some of the more sterling names in radio, including Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity. But a great radio show depends as much on great callers as it does on great hosts: Enter Premiere On Call.

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“Premiere On Call is our new custom caller service,” read the service’s website, which disappeared as this story was being reported (for a cached version of the site click here). “We supply voice talent to take/make your on-air calls, improvise your scenes or deliver your scripts. Using our simple online booking tool, specify the kind of voice you need, and we’ll get your the right person fast. Unless you request it, you won’t hear that same voice again for at least two months, ensuring the authenticity of your programming for avid listeners.”

Ensuring the authenticity of your programming… with paid, planted callers.
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#60. To: Original_Intent (#0)
ALL of talk radio is scripted. Every last station, every last show.
The only time you won't find it scripted, is when you listen to things that are pod casts that aren't in the mainstream. Even then though I'd wager that if they have advertisers, they're scripted to a degree.

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#61. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#60)
ALL of talk radio is scripted. Every last station, every last show.

I think that at this point that is pretty much a given and should be obvious to anyone with 3 functioning brain cells - which of course excludes the slobbering mouth breathing prehensile toed gibbering defective retards at Freeptardia.
Every station of 25,000 Watts or above is owned by one of just 3 companies the largest being the degenerate child of the Bush Combine and run by the sniveling monsters of the Mays family i.e., Klearchannel which boasts a portfolio of around 1200 stations. If you do not toe the NeoCon Party Line and Parrot the Propaganda that is catapulted you do not work for the Nazi combine known as Klearchannel - as at least one or two honest hosts have found out.
As well the dildoheads with their dim and minuscule sub-moron intellect are so enrapt in their delusions of the legitimacy and infallibility of their drug addled pedophile idol that they are incapable of discerning much more than it is time to turn on the radio for their daily programming. To actually look and research on their own is a conundrum that is so far above their feeble level of mentation as to be a total mystery. And the Obamazoids rank below them.

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