{"id":87,"date":"2008-07-17T10:50:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T14:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/2008\/07\/17\/fan-demands-popular-show-stop-talking-about-popular-things\/"},"modified":"2008-07-17T10:50:52","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T14:50:52","slug":"fan-demands-popular-show-stop-talking-about-popular-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Fan demands popular show stop talking about popular things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; Alex Smith of West Covina loves his favorite news talk show, except when they talk about news.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First it was the primary election.\u00c2\u00a0 They just wouldn&#8217;t shut up about it.\u00c2\u00a0 Then the housing market.\u00c2\u00a0 Now they&#8217;re back on the election again.\u00c2\u00a0 And they never let go of the economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alex has started a protest group to stop the show from conitnuing to talk about the most popular topics of the day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s more going on out there than just elections and economy. Why not talk about bond issues? Or what about traffic problems?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>some analysts point out that the topics Alex proposes may be considered boring by the show&#8217;s other listeners, but that hasn&#8217;t deterred the protest from going forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217; sick of hearing about gas prices.\u00c2\u00a0 If they talk about gas prices one more time, I&#8217;m going to drop them for good. And I&#8217;ll keep checking to make sure they haven&#8217;t stopped!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the show&#8217;s hosts say they can&#8217;t talk about things that aren&#8217;t news, and won&#8217;t talk about things the majority fo the audience isn&#8217;t interested in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; Alex Smith of West Covina loves his favorite news talk show, except when they talk about news. &#8220;First it was the primary election.\u00c2\u00a0 They just wouldn&#8217;t shut up about it.\u00c2\u00a0 Then the housing market.\u00c2\u00a0 Now they&#8217;re back on the election again.\u00c2\u00a0 And they never let go of the economy.&#8221; Alex has started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}