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Talk Radio’s America
- Author
- Brian Rosenwald
- Narrator
- Christopher Grove
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 26 November 2019
- Run Time
- 12 hours 10 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Business and Management, Media, entertainment, information and communication industries, Political structure and processes, Media studies, Elections and referenda, Political campaigning and advertising, Political parties and party platforms, Industry and industrial studies, Performing arts, Radio / podcasts, Politics and government
What to expect
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.
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- Author
- Brian Rosenwald
- Narrator
- Christopher Grove
- Duration
- 12 hours 10 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 November 2019
- ISBN
- 9781541435681
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Business and Management, Media, entertainment, information and communication industries, Political structure and processes, Media studies, Elections and referenda, Political campaigning and advertising, Political parties and party platforms, Industry and industrial studies, Performing arts, Radio / podcasts, Politics and government
Synopsis
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.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.
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