The Talk-O-Sphere: Why the Empire is Striking Back with the Fairness Doctrine By Richard Miniter
With all the fuss about the power of the blogosphere, influential talk radio hosts and their loyal audiences remain a thorn in the side of the political and media establishment. PJM Washington editor Richard Miniter takes the pulse of talk radio and finds it going strong - too strong for some.
It’s pushing 1 a.m. at an East Side smoke-easy called Merchants NY, when Steve Gill tells me why he is delighted that he lost his race for Congress in 1994.
With another 800 votes he would have won, but, he says, Tennessee would have lost. “If I was sitting in Congress right now, Tennessee would have an income tax,” he said.
2 comments:
Since the Democrats talk radio show crashed and burned, they have suddenly developed deep concerns about the need to regulate talk radio in general.
Even their own could only take so much of nothing but vitriol and gutter humor. It was'nt enough to keep advertisers coming back. It's their anti-capitalist position that came back to bite 'em in the ass. The market place works every time.
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