From the Fox News thread:
So...I was listening to The Michael Baisden show the other day, and I heard the last bit from a guest on the show talking about this whole thing with Fox News. The guy said something I had to admit made sense; that the left needed to promote more liberal voices. Quite aside from demographics and the fact that Fox will never put a strong liberal like a Maddow on any of its shows, I still think that it makes sense to groom some upcoming talent that can get out there and present the liberal perspective, just as the right does. Anyway, to that end, I know that D&D has a lot of smart and highly opinionated people that post here, and a few of them already produced a political ad. Couldn't we do some kind of talk show/discussion panel thing? I've been kicking the idea around a bit and would love to hear anyone's opinion on it.
So the point of this thread is to gauge interest in producing a politics themed talk radio and/or round table discussion podcast. Specifically, I'd like to know who all would be interested in participating and any ideas for interesting segments on the podcast. And even though I mentioned liberal voices, any political perspective is welcomed. Ultimately, I'd like to think we can create a political show that would be better than the silliness that goes on on cable news, and would be a somewhat more civil version of the politics threads we have around here. Anyway, comment away, and if we decide to get serious about doing this thing I'll compile ideas and participants in this OP.
EDIT: Also, if you have any technical knowledge about conferencing with Skype or something similar, or you have radio show experience, your advice would be very appreciated.
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Participants
wwtMask - producer/writer/researcher/host/round table
Salvation122 - sound guy/Round Table
The Crowing One
Element Brian
Captain Carrot - writer
Synthesis
Chanus - writer/researcher
Deebaser
SageinaRage
Buddies
Feral
Sos
Heartlash - writer/reasearcher/Round Table
Henroid - Round Table
Hakkekage - produce/researcher/writer
Fencingsax - Round Table
Speaker
Rent - writer
Gosling - researcher
Bullio
enlightenedbum
Yar - researcher/Round table
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Fake edit: If nothing else to play devil's advocate.
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
Edit: I support this though.
edit: motherfucker. it appears that there is already a blog named this.
I also like Limed for Truth.
yeah, particularly because various folks who post here already have the domain and a blog set up.
http://limedforthetruth.com/
it's been inactive for like years.
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yet it links to what i believe is the correct site?
Well, for one, it's generally audio.
It's basically like a radio show of any variety presented as an mp3 you can download and listen to at your leisure.
I like the idea... I'd be willing to contribute... unless I'm one of the crazy conservatives... I dunno how you people think of me.
MSM FAIL - highlighting failures of the MSM
LOLpublicans/LOLdems - pretty self explanatory
It Came from the Fringe - sort of a LOLwingers thing
Politician of the Day - each panelist highlights a politician that's doing something they like
Headline Issues - self explanatory
Wonky Talk - complex issues are discussed like they're not black and white or simple
EDIT: I forgot [CITATION NEEDED] - highlighting politicians and pundits who are talking out of their asses.
Also, hopefully this is a bit easier to do than maintain a blog. I post all sorts of shit on the forums and talk about politics all the time but can't maintain a regular blog.
You see, I thought there was video involved.
I also crank-start my car and access the internet via wireless telegraphy.
no freaking clue. check out the google cache of the site. freaky.
Nobody wears pants on anything where they are allowed to sit behind a desk.
Having friends in the local news business is... enlightening...
There can be video involved... it's not against the rules or anything. In which case, it would be like an episode of a show you can watch in YouTube-type fashion.
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
I hope to contribute as I get more confident and involved in current political affairs.
Well, we do need a moderator/host. But if enough people sign on, we'll probably round robin the host and panelists anyway.
....I think you just answered your own question.
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the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I think the best way to take this thing is to have structure. Here are some questions that need pondering.
1) How often will this podcast come out?
2) How long will each podcast be?
3) What kind of information will this podcast cover?
Initially this is what I thought:
1) Once a week. Best to do that to summarize and speak about the week events.
2) In the range of 1-2 hours. Long enough to cover a lot of information, short enough to hold people's attention.
3) If it is weekly ideally it would cover the week's events with some commentary. On top of that it would be cool if every month or two months it has a theme where it goes deep into one issue with a presentation of a public issue, ways to fix it, and a debate among viewpoints.
And another thing. Just throwing people in to speak on a podcast wouldn't be the best thing to do. It would be ideal if we had a host or someone with some good speaking skills to handle a majority of content with people coming in for commentary (who must also have decent speaking skills).
There also needs to be a division of what needs to be done. People who are good at writing, editting, producation or whatever. I'm not familiar with all steps of production of such a thing but if someone does have experience/knowledge of the subject I would like to hear a run down. I would help in the startup and the continuation of this.
I also have a suggestion for a segment. You may want to consider doing something called "Devil's Advocate" in which we attempt to critically analyze a popular position on the podcast or the PA forums. Many of the other segments you threw out there have an abundance of focus on why everyone or everything is incorrect (e.g. LOLpubs/LOLdems). It may be beneficial from a self-reflexive standpoint to bring some of that snark to our own agenda.
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Technical Stuffs!
Pulling this up from my LP nonsense, there's a program for recording Skype calls, Call Graph. It allows you to record Skype calls, placing each person in the call in their own stereo channel. It apparently does have some desyncing issues, but I'm betting that can be solved with like Audacity or something in post-call editing. Edit - The program is free, ad supported, and you can pay to have ads removed. I've never used it myself, this is merely recommending based on a recommendation.
Participation!
I would love to participate, not dedicated to every week (or whatever time table is setup), but perhaps as a guest. I'm far from the most knowledgeable person on the forum regarding politics, but I try to stay relatively informed and I'd like to think I can at least serve as "the Joe-shmoe who wants to understand things better."
Especially if That Guy With The Voice has a segment.
Just throwin' that out there.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Unless i'm making bad jokes.
I wouldn't try to do segments every show, by the way, depending on the time table for this. If it's a weekly thing, I would hold back on the Citation Needed segment to at least being bi-weekly itself. It'll give it more beef that way, because sometimes people don't say new crazy shit more than once a week. And it'd be bad to repeat useless points made time and time again.
Politician of the Day (or week, again don't know your favored timetable here) is a great idea. It's the easiest way to talk about current events.
The LOLpublicans / LOLdems thing I would rename. It shouldn't specifically name either party, if only because it sounds... I dunno. I'm just suggesting aiming for something mutually offensive to both.
There should also be a general Network Fail sort of segment. No segments specifically based on any networks, just a segment for all and any recent shortcomings. It should actually be a media segment, because newspapers could fit in.
The last segment suggestion I have is one for blogs, because they are unfortunately all the rage and people need to learn that blogs can be wrong while also having good ideas.
I wouldn't go any higher than 4 or 5 segments (hark, the number I suggested!) or try to split hairs too much. It's not necessary, and let's face it - we're not creative enough to fill those needs.
LOLiticians?
That would be more of the Politician of the Day/Week thing I mentioned (because someone can be so for something amazingly good or stupid).
Well that's why you want to avoid daily stuff, at least for the beginning. Your content is only going to be based on what happens each day. But yeah, it'd be best to have someone in the morning or some such work it out with whomever else what should be discussed, put together a plan, and then go into the recording with that plan already distributed to everyone.
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PMs- wherein D and D public write in potential topics for disscussion to you guys, you pick some, discuss
Also this sounds awesome
Ooh, I could do that. I don't have a good voice (I stutter and talk way too fast), but I can provide a nice snarky/mocking/serious framework for discussion.