conservative talk radio

Will Talk Radio Get Wake-Up Call?

Stevie Converse — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:27:27 -0800

Media Minutes: November 21, 2008

candace — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:52:08 -0800

A new report documents how conservative talk radio shock jocks create an echo chamber that reaches across the country. And talk of resurrecting the Fairness Doctrine never fails to rile up the conservative base. But there's no plan to bring it back.

Late-Period Limbaugh

Stevie Converse — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:09:04 -0700

At one time, Limbaugh did his program from a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper he dubbed, with tongue-in-cheek grandiosity, the Excellence in Broadcasting Building. These days, he mostly broadcasts out of a studio in Palm Beach, Fla., which he calls the Southern Command, and describes on the air as a “heavily fortified bunker.”

Is the Tyranny of Right-Wing Radio Coming to an End?

Stevie Converse — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:03:33 -0700

Conservative fears of an impending Democratic attack on talk radio - dubbed the "Hush Rush" effort in an homage to top-rated radio talker Rush Limbaugh -- continue to escalate, despite ample evidence that such an assault is unlikely to occur when (as is likely) Democrats sweep back into power in the forthcoming elections in November.