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Talk radio is an asset to our nation because it encourages strong and healthy debate about public policy, and there is no reason to affect that debate with government legislation.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

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.

The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.

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.

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.

Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls.

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.

I mean it's - it is hard to find a voice on talk radio that is not a conservative voice.