Are the People Who Call Radio Shows Actually Paid Actors?

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Tablet Magazine afresh appear a absolute address advertisement the "real people" that alarm into radio shows. According to Tablet, those absolute humans aren't absolute at all. Instead, they're paid actors. Hired guns. Fake. I knew those amazing belief that activation abundant chat and accomplish for alarming programming was too acceptable to be true.

It's all allotment of a beyond cabal and starts with a aggregation alleged Premiere on Alarm (owned by Clear Channel Communications which syndicates the brand of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck) who auditions and develops these actors to buzz into radio shows. The actors accept scripts to echo on air, assurance acquaintance agreements to never acknowledge information, and consistently pretend to be absolute people. Not too bad for $40 an hour. Here's how Premiere On Alarm describes their casework on their now-defunct website:

Premiere On Alarm is our new custom addition service. We accumulation articulation aptitude to take/make your on-air calls, ad-lib your scenes or bear your scripts. Using our simple online booking tool, specify the affectionate of articulation you need, and we'll get your the appropriate being fast. Unless you appeal it, you will not apprehend that aforementioned articulation afresh for at atomic two months, ensuring the actuality of your programming for ardent listeners."

And I'm not absolutely surprised, some of the buzz calls I've overheard on radio shows accept been so antic that there was no way it was real. The carper in me has developed over the years to anticipate that, well, no one in the ball industry is absolutely absolute anymore. Callers too generally advance the radio show's agenda, hosts rarely accurate doubt, it's all too convenient.

For the record, Rush Limbaugh has denied his appearance of partaking in these array of activities and alleged Tablet annual a "radical, left-wing operation". [Tablet Magazine]