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.
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The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.
Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls.
I mean it's - it is hard to find a voice on talk radio that is not a conservative voice.
Talk radio doesn't need to be political.
The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major network operating as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and 90 percent of talk radio is dominated by right-wing extremists.
Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.
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.
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.
American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.