Talk Radio’s America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Talk Radio’s America write by Brian Rosenwald. This book was released on 2019-08-13. Talk Radio’s America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The march to the Trump presidency began in 1988, when Rush Limbaugh went national. Brian Rosenwald charts the transformation of AM radio entertainers into political kingmakers. By giving voice to the conservative base, they reshaped the Republican Party and fostered demand for a president who sounded as combative and hyperbolic as a talk show host.
Talk Radio's America
Talk Radio's America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Talk Radio's America write by Brian Rosenwald. This book was released on 2019. Talk Radio's America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The march to the Trump presidency began in 1988, when Rush Limbaugh went national. Brian Rosenwald charts the transformation of AM radio entertainers into political kingmakers. By giving voice to the conservative base, they reshaped the Republican Party and fostered demand for a president who sounded as combative and hyperbolic as a talk show host.--
Talk Radio’s America
Talk Radio’s America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Talk Radio’s America write by Brian Rosenwald. This book was released on 2019-08-13. Talk Radio’s America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The cocreator of the Washington Post’s “Made by History” blog reveals how the rise of conservative talk radio gave us a Republican Party incapable of governing and paved the way for Donald Trump. America’s long road to the Trump presidency began on August 1, 1988, when, desperate for content to save AM radio, top media executives stumbled on a new format that would turn the political world upside down. They little imagined that in the coming years their brainchild would polarize the country and make it nearly impossible to govern. Rush Limbaugh, an enormously talented former disc jockey—opinionated, brash, and unapologetically conservative—pioneered a pathbreaking infotainment program that captured the hearts of an audience no media executive knew existed. Limbaugh’s listeners yearned for a champion to punch back against those maligning their values. Within a decade, this format would grow from fifty-nine stations to over one thousand, keeping millions of Americans company as they commuted, worked, and shouted back at their radios. The concept pioneered by Limbaugh was quickly copied by cable news and digital media. Radio hosts form a deep bond with their audience, which gives them enormous political power. Unlike elected representatives, however, they must entertain their audience or watch their ratings fall. Talk radio boosted the Republican agenda in the 1990s, but two decades later, escalation in the battle for the airwaves pushed hosts toward ever more conservative, outrageous, and hyperbolic content. Donald Trump borrowed conservative radio hosts’ playbook and gave Republican base voters the kind of pugnacious candidate they had been demanding for decades. By 2016, a political force no one intended to create had completely transformed American politics.
Talk Radio and the American Dream
Talk Radio and the American Dream - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Talk Radio and the American Dream write by Murray Burton Levin. This book was released on 1987. Talk Radio and the American Dream available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Radio Right
The Radio Right - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Radio Right write by Paul Matzko. This book was released on 2020. The Radio Right available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "By the early 1960s, and for the first time in history, most Americans across the nation could tune their radio to a station that aired conservative programming from dawn to dusk. People listened to these shows in remarkable numbers; for example, the broadcaster with the largest listening audience, Carl McIntire, had a weekly audience of twenty million, or one in nine American households. For sake of comparison, that is a higher percentage of the country than would listen to conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh forty years later. As this Radio Right phenomenon grew, President John F. Kennedy responded with the most successful government censorship campaign of the last half century. Taking the advice of union leader Walter Reuther, the Kennedy administration used the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Communications Commission to pressure stations into dropping conservative programs. This book reveals the growing power of the Radio Right through the eyes of its opponents using confidential reports, internal correspondence, and Oval Office tape recordings. With the help of other liberal organizations, including the Democratic National Committee and the National Council of Churches, the censorship campaign muted the Radio Right. But by the late 1970s, technological innovations and regulatory changes fueled a resurgence in conservative broadcasting. A new generation of conservative broadcasters, from Pat Robertson to Ronald Reagan, harnessed the power of conservative mass media and transformed the political landscape of America"--
