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I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio.

Radio, in a way, is preaching.

Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.

For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.