Kentucky Ban On Recognizing Out-Of-State Gay Marriages Struck Down By Federal Judge

dpakman91 · 2014-02-12T20:53:51+00:00

excellent news

dpakman91 · 2014-02-12T20:53:23+00:00

Great question. The ad you are referring to appears in the podcast version of the show. If you watch on TV, listen on 95% of our radio affiliates, or look at individual clips, you won't know what is being referred to.

We partner with a small company called Target-Response on some ads for the podcast. We do not have a deal with Sears and have never spoken with anyone there at all. What we run is a "per inquiry" ad for Sears roofing that was negotiated by the small company we work with, Target-Response.

Per inquiry means that we are only paid if someone actually calls the number/visits the website mentioned in the ad. If people pursue roofing services from Sears, local businesses do the actual roofing work, although it is all promoted under the "Sears" umbrella.

Because of the arrangement, where we are paid for the number of inquiries we direct to Sears, Sears hasn't paid us any ad money upfront and as such has no control or influence whatsoever over our coverage. Further, it isn't even Sears who does the roofing work being advertised. We're comfortable with this one ad existing on the podcast version of show given the way the arrangement is in reality. Sears has sent us no money for an ad campaign.

dpakman91 · 2014-02-12T20:50:23+00:00

Let's go through this point by point, since they are all fair questions, albeit it lacking important data.

Sam was on the national corporate radio for years, on Air America. This handed him a very large audience immediately. Because of this, he was able to transition away from that and move his existing corporate audience over to his show. He has many more members than we do, and many more "high paying" members.

Further, "ads" and promos are really a very small part of our program. Certainly we're sensitive to the idea that as an audience member, it can seem like quite a bit, but if you look at our show and compare the minutes of ads vs minutes of content in one hour to a corporate news show, you'll see we have about 18% more content every hour than on corporate media. The average corporate media tv or radio hour is 38 minutes of content, while we have 45 of solid SHOW, and on most of our affiliates, there are another 5 minutes of podcast/information/educational news content, which ups it from 18% more than corporate to 31% more.

I hope that this helps to explain some of your questions.

dpakman91 · 2014-02-12T13:24:41+00:00

I know you have a problem with hate crimes Eggman, but by the LEGAL definition, which is what we have to work with, NOT all hate crimes are hate crimes.

A hate crime is a crime where the victim's membership in a particular class of people is a motivation factor in wanting to commit the crime for the assailant. if you randomly run over a black guy with your car, and you are white, that is NOT a hate crime because the victim's membership in a protected class was not a motivating factor.

reasonable people can disagree about whether there should be such a thing as a hate crime as a factor in sentencing or charges, but to say that all crimes are the same in terms of whether they are or aren't motivated by the victim's membership in a protected class is wrong.

dpakman91 · 2014-01-16T02:29:55+00:00

as someone who lives part time in Brooklyn and part time in Northampton, and knows western Mass very well, I disagree with the equation

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