What other talk show hosts might be interested in sharing the Nolan Chart survey with their viewers or listeners?
The recent, large influx of interested new visitors from Glenn Beck's TV show and website to our site shows the power and popularity of the site's survey. It also shows clearly that we should use this tool to further promote the site. Your input and assistance is requested. by Walt Thiessen
(libertarian)
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
When Glenn Beck featured the Nolan Chart's survey from this website on his talk show last Friday, he sent an army of viewers to this site to try it out. It's hard to know the exact number of people who visited the site because of his show, but it's pretty clear that the number who DID visit it was in the hundreds of thousands. This raises the question: what other talk show hosts might be interested in sharing our survey with their viewers or listeners?
The surge of traffic has given even greater vigor to a website that was already doing well. It raises the question as to how much more successfully this site could influence national debate if more people knew about it and our survey. I'm making it a priority for me to focus on reaching out to as many such talk show hosts as I possibly can, to urge then to devote a show to focusing on the survey. The draw for them is that, as Glenn Beck demonstrated, our "political quiz" (as he calls it) is very, very interesting to American viewers and listeners. Talk show hosts are always primarily interested in keeping their viewers interested enough to keep tuning in, so this kind of draw is precisely the kind of thing they want to keep their shows fresh, new, and exciting.
Talkers magazine's website, devoted to the talk show industry, lists the top 250 talk show hosts in the country. Not surprisingly, Rush Limbaugh tops the list, and Glenn Beck is #5. This is clearly a list of the most influential talk show hosts with the most viewer or listener reach. The list is heavily dominated by conservative hosts, but there are also a fair number of libertarian, liberal, and centrist hosts as well. For all I know, there may even be a statist host or two on the list.
The problem, of course, is that I'm just one person. While I can do my best to reach these people, it would be even more helpful if the army of regulars at the Nolan Chart website helped me reach them. It would also be helpful if you could suggest additional hosts not shown on the list in the readers comments on this article, below.
Imagine what would happen if those 250 talk shows were suddenly inundated by thousands of us urging them to discuss the Nolan Chart survey on their programs! The big draw from their point-of-view is that when Glenn Beck featured the survey on his show, he led literally hundreds of thousands of his viewers to visit our website...to the point that it crashed our poor, little server! Fortunately, we now have a much more powerful and robust server capable of handling far more traffic than the old server could handle, so we're now poised to do the kind of outreach that could make this website a major player in the media.
We have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. If we can grab it now, strike while the iron is hot (so to speak), we can turn this website into a major player in the media. We can position it to play a major role in the 2010 midterm elections and to heavily influence the 2012 presidential election.
One of my goals in creating this website was to help libertarian ideas become a part of the national debate. In the first article ever written on this website (by me, in August 2007), I wrote, "With any luck, instead of trying to change the major media, this site will (hopefully) become a part of the major media!" At the time, that comment seemed a bit pie-in-the-sky. Today, that dream can become a reality. Will you help make it real?
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Wouldn't it be interesting to see where each of the top 100 talk show hosts fall on the Nolan chart? Some are obvious, but some might surprise us (and themselves).
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