Talk radio

Talk radio is "a peculiarly American phenomenon featuring much rhetoric and not a lot of substance; high volume noise often combined with the absence of facts. An estimated 22 per cent of Americans get their daily news from Talk Radio - bizarre, bigoted and often startlingly misinformed diatribes from radio show hosts hired for their ability to shock first and foremost."

Dominated by conservatives
In 2003, "as the New York Times Magazine quoted Paul Weyrich, who started the Heritage Foundation, they (think tanks) have 1,500 conservative radio talk show hosts."

Examples

 * Air America Radio
 * Coast to Coast
 * Michael Savage
 * Rush Limbaugh

External articles

 * Faiz Shakir, "REPORT: The Right Wing Domination Of Talk Radio And How To End It," Think Progress, June 20, 2007.
 * "The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio," Center for American Progress and Free Press, June 21, 2007.
 * Amanda Terkel, "Mark Levin’s Grand Left-Wing Conspiracy Theory Falls Apart In First Sentence," Think Progress, June 21, 2007.
 * Amanda Terkel, "The ‘Fairness Doctrine’ Myth: Right Wing Falsely Claims Progressives Want To Resurrect Mandatory Balance," Think Progress, June 21, 2007.