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Coast to Coast before 9/11 and after 9/11
noorysmoustache:
--- Quote from: Joseph on January 11, 2011, 03:59:52 AM ---As a new member of this message board, I feel this is a good place to start. I wasn't privy to Coast in its hay-day and I was only suckered into listening to George through night shift boredom. But what struck me was it's potential to be a really great show. It lacked realism most of the time and the religious freaks do little to add to any conversation, but somewhere down in the deep dark pit there was a glimmer of something bigger. After three years, I'm close to giving up hope. But my curiosity is peaked by the level of conversation happening on this page. Albeit juvenile, from what I've glanced at times, it still seems a more constructive source for discussing curious things that most medias find taboo or ridiculous.
George is a fine host from a network perspective. He panders to his often mentally ill guests and sells the product effectively. He is your friend. Buy Gold. But I do long for an experienced journalist with real questions for real researchers.
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Wow, great post and I know exactly what you're saying. Welcome :)
fabucat:
--- Quote from: Flaxen Hegemony on September 14, 2011, 10:30:44 PM ---Whenever Knapp says this, it makes me wonder what kind of dough the Vegas gig brings in. No offense to Las Vegas, TV reporters, or the Las Vegas TV reporter community, but I would hope that being the flagship weeknight host on a national radio franchise, even one in the wee hours, would bring in more.
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I think that Knapp really enjoys being a "real reporter." Sometimes respect is worth more than money.
dan7800:
I agree with this, to a point.
It seems like right around 2001, the show became much more commercial. The free feeds from the website were taken down. Additionally, the "magic" of the show started to fade. AB had retired a few times and the show did become less fun.
Art was fun. He was a rebel. George is way too nice and you can tell is a cookie-cutter host.
Oversoul:
I just came across this thread. And I was amazed and impressed by the series of posts I came across (the more notable ones I quote below), which were so perceptive, insightful, intelligent (if not brilliant or luminous), and so utterly honest and TRUE. In my mind, the posts and their authors are a glowing statement of CoastGab's best form, and a fine tribute to the glory days of the Coast To Coast program and to the ideal the show stands for to many people. I find something of my own thoughts and sentiments resonating in them, and that resonance tells me they are sincere. :)
--- Quote from: GuerrillaUnReal on July 15, 2010, 02:02:15 PM ---Maybe I'm in the minority on this but I really feel the show changed after 9/11. The tone of the show became much darker. Every psychic, remote viewer, or person with a book to sell before 9/11 should've never been allowed on the show (and bitchslapped over and over) and Art himself seemed to have a lost a piece of the edge that made the show so amazing in the 90s.
9/11 really kind of killed the show that deals in large part with conspiracies, predictions and subjects outside the norm. Which such a huge world event happened that everyone on C2C absolutely missed on, it killed so much of the charm. It also brought about a slew of crazed religious guests who wouldn't have seen the light of day before hand. It brought about a slew of the slimiest lowest motherfuckers on the planet who used 9/11 to push their crap. Also it seems there was a three or four period on that show where people seem to have literally lost their minds.
I generally try to avoid shows after 9/11 as the mood of the show is just different and much darker. Anyway, this may be an emotionally charged subject but I've been thinking about this for a long time.
By the way I have to say this...
ED DAMES!!! FAIL!
EVERY PSYCHIC OR FUTURIST OR WHATEVER!!!! FUCKING FAIL!!!
God damn listening to Art protect this scum after 9/11 is just painful.
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--- Quote from: b_dubb on September 06, 2010, 01:20:16 AM ---i only started listening to Art Bell / C2C in the last three years or so and regularly so only in the last three months. from the AB Stream (brought to you by Flomax - jk) it's obvious that the show suffered greatly after 9/11. and more so after GN took over.
i think 9/11 changed the tone of everything in this country. and how everything is sold. and based on what i hear being advertised during broadcasts .. they're pandering. playing on people's fears. and making it worse. and i hate it
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--- Quote from: Chupacabra on September 06, 2010, 10:12:39 AM ---Your right about everything changing after 9/11 the first few years after 9/11 were not too bad, but since about 2007 things have sped up, in a bad way. And as far as c2c am after 9/11, yes it did chnage...but the topics are so boring. Here is another thing, in the past Artbell would do headlines then go strait to the guest, Now c2c am has about 5 different topics per show and opens lines about nothing. It has become a cram course show, rushed...and all bussines. >:(
When is the last Time you heard a Proper WHOLE show about Chupacabra, if they have the guest is just on there to sell a book.
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--- Quote from: Renaldo on December 04, 2010, 10:49:09 AM ---I don't know if 9/11 is what changed the show, but that's as good of a point in time to pick as any. I don't see it as becoming darker though, just not as good. I blame it more on Art vs. Noory as host though, which also occurred around that same time.
Noory's an asshat who's taken on the role of a tin pot messiah of the light to the troubled masses, and the listeners (at least a good portion of the callers) are now religious hayseeds who believe just about anything that comes along. Art was always too smart for that, and as he'd say, would give the guest or caller enough rope to hang themselves with if they weren't careful.
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--- Quote from: Agent : Orange on December 06, 2010, 03:44:17 PM ---Wait until 2012 goes by and nothing happens. The show will take another shift then.
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--- Quote from: M. Knight on December 06, 2010, 04:05:48 PM ---2012 seems to be some kind of psychological projection from the Nooron. His contract ends or gets renewed (?) in 2012. This seems to be some kind of latent doomsday obsession of his, masked by all the other Mayan crap.
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--- Quote from: dan7800 on March 01, 2012, 03:39:13 PM ---It seems like right around 2001, the show became much more commercial. The free feeds from the website were taken down. Additionally, the "magic" of the show started to fade. AB had retired a few times and the show did become less fun.
Art was fun. He was a rebel. George is way too nice and you can tell is a cookie-cutter host.
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--- Quote from: Joseph on January 11, 2011, 03:59:52 AM ---As a new member of this message board, I feel this is a good place to start. I wasn't privy to Coast in its hay-day and I was only suckered into listening to George through night shift boredom. But what struck me was it's potential to be a really great show. It lacked realism most of the time and the religious freaks do little to add to any conversation, but somewhere down in the deep dark pit there was a glimmer of something bigger. After three years, I'm close to giving up hope. But my curiosity is peaked by the level of conversation happening on this page. Albeit juvenile, from what I've glanced at times, it still seems a more constructive source for discussing curious things that most medias find taboo or ridiculous.
George is a fine host from a network perspective. He panders to his often mentally ill guests and sells the product effectively. He is your friend. Buy Gold. But I do long for an experienced journalist with real questions for real researchers.
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UFO Fill:
When did Cheap Channel buy out Premiere? Or, I seem to remember that they took over sometime after they bought Premeire - moved the staff to Los Angeles from Oregon. Wasn't it about the time of 9/11? Maybe that's part of the change.
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