Said it better than I could. Thanks.
This has come up before, but I’ll answer it again here.
A: Weekly Nielsen (television) and Arbitron (radio) ratings in the United States and periodic DOD surveys are used by AFRTS to identify the most popular shows to match AFRTS audience demographics. In recent years, AFRTS has been able to acquire and air 90 to 95 percent of the top 75 U.S. prime time series. No single U.S. station or network provides a similar service.
Warning: the link is kinda wonky; you may have to hit it several times to get the page to load. If it just won’t load, go to the AFRTS homepage, click on the FAQ, under “FAQ Categories,” click on Programming. The second question is the one.
If you feel Leftist views are under-represented on military radio and television networks, then perhaps shows with Leftist views should strive to garner higher ratings, or otherwise appeal more to the military servicemembers who fill out programming surveys.
If Leftist views are being “censored,” then it’s the censorship of choice, not only of American servicemembers, but of the larger general American audience, as well.
Why of course! Why didn’t I go to AFRTS’ site to find the real reason why left wing views are banned on AFRTS? They would never lie about it! Of course the administration that concocted forged documents about the Iraq-Niger uranium connection, that knowingly and deliberately lied to lead the nation into war, that turned the US into a nation that condones and practices torture, they would be happy to broadcast divergent points of view. Gosh, why am I so cynical?
Low blood sugar? Old age creeping up on you?
As i pointed out, AFRTS would not even air an hour of Rush’s show a day until forced to by a groundswell of public demand. Not very right wing at all.
(Great music mix. A country song, then a rock song then a rap-crossover then a pop song then a country song. Sort of a Short Attention Span Theater of the Air.)
Note that Rush was added during the Clinton administration. Conservative pundits and lawmakers raised a big stink about it.
When Clinton ran the DoD, they were big enough to allow a decidedly unfriendly voice to AFRTS. AFRTS assured Ed Schultz that he was added to the schedule, then after Schultz criticized the administration for the troops and Bush rehearsing the Q&A session, he was dropped from the schedule. He was dropped because of politics.
Whatever.
I note that Rush is not on my local AFTRS station, or he is on at Oh-Dark Hundred.
Anyway, the OP is answered.
Well, people can quibble over the definition of liberal, but…
General Norman Schwarzkopf has proclaimed himself a liberal on several occasions (leading the Democrats to hope, some years back, that he might run for high office as a Democrat).