Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Talk radio doesn't need to be political.
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.
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.
Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.
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.
Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.
Radio, in a way, is preaching.
American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.
Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Internet is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.
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