How did Talk Radio Get So Politically Lop-Sided?

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🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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A history of America radio, and how it paved the way for our current media landscape.

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0:00.0	On this week's on the media, 17 of the nation's top 20 most listen to talk radio hosts are conservative.
0:07.5	Only one is progressive.
0:09.2	How did the public airwaves come to be so politically lopsided?
0:13.9	If you turn the country station on and you hear Beethoven's death,
0:18.0	you're going to be confused. Radio techists think that people feel the same way about talk.
0:21.8	Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Program, a program exclusively designed for rich conservatives
0:26.4	and right-minded Republicans and those who want to be either or both.
0:29.5	We sold it as news from a biblical worldview, but it was funny how that biblical worldview
0:36.0	seemed to line up with Republican party politics.
0:39.3	Why would we want to have any Democrats on the right losers?
0:41.9	They come never going to speak.
0:43.4	I am a working mother.
0:44.9	Yeah.
0:45.7	And I kids are fine.
0:47.2	They are not.
0:48.1	Who's raising them?
0:48.8	You don't have them.
0:50.0	The babysitter's gone.
0:51.2	If you ain't no mama, get off my program.
0:53.7	You liberal.
0:55.4	It's all coming up after this.
1:00.2	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
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