If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.
Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.
The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.
Journalism is in fact history on the run.
What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.
So much of journalism is conveying a place and time that existed, to someone at a later date: giving a person the context and trying to make them feel as informed as if they were actually there.
The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news.
Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.
Talk radio doesn't need to be political.