The GOP hold on most of American radio seems pretty unshakable, but Democrats must get into the talk-radio game before ever more damage is done.

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    There should be regulation around use of the word “news”. Many of these stations call themselves “News Radio” as if they only reported verifiable facts, but well over 50% is opinion.

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      Anything presented as news should be kept separate from opinion. If it’s news, you should be able to defend it like it was said under oath.

      Personally, I would love it if news channels had to distinguish opinion content from news by removing the word news from the screen and replacing it with the word opinion. That or some other clear and unmistakable signal to the audience should be there to establish whether the station is going on record and asserting facts or whether this is some talking head spewing bullshit.

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        Whilst the act for which you speak definitely accelerated the bullshit, it wasn’t peaches and cream back in the day. Just look at the film Citizen Kane a fictitious (and lawsuit resistant) depiction of William Randolph Hearst. In it an exceptionally wealthy business man uses the media to promote his political aims. And to skew narratives outside of strict politics. A man who craves love and adoration but can’t reciprocate. Remind you of anyone? I would say Musk’s purchase of Twitter fills at least one of those molds, Trump the rest.

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    Ronald Reagan started the fight to get rid of the Fairness Doctrine.

    Back in the Cronkite Era, if a station ran an editorial it had to provide equal time for opposing views.

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      Rush Limbaugh and his gross career owes its entire existence to that. He is someone who believes that drug dealers and smugglers need to be shot without trial… and he himself was a drug dealer when he was hard for cash.

      Tells you a good deal of what kind of person we’re dealing with here.

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    They tried with air America and it was ok but not really all that compelling. Truth and facts just don’t sell like toxic divisive fantasies.

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    I live in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. Everything is really spread out here and it’s one of the places in the US where you just need a car. Lots of people here commute and a lot of them get their news from radio while driving. People who have the radio on at work will often have it on a talk station.

    We had an NPR affiliate, but that went away in 2019. The only people on terrestrial radio in this area talking about current events now are right wing grievance screaming. I’ve watched this region become more conservative during that time.