Quote from: MaxPower on June 01, 2018, 10:16:34 AM
Also listen to C2C as well as many of the other shows from time to time. It's more the guests or topics that is the draw for me instead of the host. All hosts have their good points and bad points. Looking back on some of the negative posts about GN, it seems like an obsession of hate rather than a factual dislike. IMHO the continued rants are not deserved. It was refreshing to hear Dave give recognition and kind words to GN and C2C on his new show. Everyone should listen for themselves and make up their own minds.
There was a time (10+ years ago) when I started to become really annoyed with GN and his various catchphrases like "Do you believe in angels?" that would come out of the blue and be totally non-sequitur when the guest was in the middle of a train of thought. And I found this site with a +"George Noory sucks" internet search. At the time, Art Bell was consigned to semi-retirement with the promise that he'd do the occasional show on C2C from time to time. But we'd be waiting for several months in between his appearances. I guess now GN is sort of OK.
But with Art Bell having left us, what is really the point of hating on GN in perpetuity? Even when he was alive, AB's comebacks were rather short-lived. Now there is a controversy regarding Heather and about who represents the true Art Bell legacy. I don't really feel like reading through hundreds of forum posts to be caught up with all of the drama. For good or ill, C2C is the "real legacy", even if it's original creator disavowed and attacked it's new owners in his later years. C2C has a large network on terrestrial radio with a lot of inertia.
Maybe I'll give the current incarnation of MITD a listen someday. To me though, MITD/C2C/Heather are all chasing after the same audience for all things paranormal. There's only so much of my own time that I can invest and listen to these things. The internet has done quite a bit in fracturing audiences--we have television shows that have viewership levels of less than one million that get renewed even though these types of TV ratings would have meant immediate cancellation by the networks only 20 years ago.