Talk Radio’s America

Brian Rosenwald

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• On Texas Public Radio’s The Source, listen to Brian Rosenwald explain how conservative talk radio—no longer even attempting to be fair and balanced; instead explicitly partisan—transformed American politics
• Watch Rosenwald discuss with CNN’s Michael Smerconish the mind-bending possibility of Donald Trump broadcasting a radio show from the White House
• On Innovation Hub (WGBH/PRI), listen to Rosenwald tell the story of how conservative talk saved AM radio, influenced American politics, and changed our political reality
• Read an excerpt from Talk Radio’s America, “From Entertainment to Outrage: On the Rise of Rush Limbaugh and Conservative Talk Radio,” at Literary Hub
• At the Washington Post, read Rosenwald on the divisive case for Donald Trump’s 2020 awarding of the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rush Limbaugh
• On KNX 1070 News Radio (Los Angeles, CA)’s In Depth, listen to Rosenwald discuss Limbaugh’s legacy
• At the Washington Post, read Rosenwald on how “Trump sounds just like a right-wing talk-radio host”
• Watch Rosenwald discuss with CNN’s Michael Smerconish whether Fox News, The Drudge Report, and conservative talk radio may finally turn against Trump
• Read Rush Limbaugh’s thoughts on Rosenwald’s discussion with CNN’s Michael Smerconish
• On WHYY (Philadelphia, PA)’s Radio Times, listen to Rosenwald discuss the rise and influence of AM talk on politics and pop culture
• On WBUR (Boston, MA)’s Here & Now, listen to Rosenwald explain the phenomenon that is Rush Limbaugh—whose skyrocketing success with a new brand of combative talk radio came as a surprise even to him
• On WAMU (Washington, DC)’s 1A, listen to Rosenwald describe the radio roots that shaped today’s GOP
• On NPR’s Weekend Edition, listen to Rosenwald comment on the December 2019 passing of “shock jock” Don Imus
• Read a Christian Science Monitor feature, informed by discussion with Rosenwald, on U.S. voters’ “alternate realities”
• On the Slate podcast The Gist, listen to Rosenwald consider Rush Limbaugh’s influence on the art of “hijacking political discourse”
• At the Atlantic, read Rosenwald’s overview of the unintended twenty-first-century political consequences of AM radio stations’ seemingly innocuous goal—keeping their listeners engaged (and enraged)
• Listen to Rosenwald’s discussion with the Monocle podcast Monocle Reads
• On the Yahoo! News podcast The Long Game, listen to Rosenwald discuss how talk radio and cable news hosts have become the equivalent of party leaders on both the left and right—but without any of the accountability party leadership has traditionally faced
• Listen to Rosenwald discuss Talk Radio’s America on radio programs and podcasts across the United States: Shaping Opinion with Tim O’Brien, Background Briefing with Ian Masters, Strange Days with Fernand Amandi, The Majority Report with Sam Seder, The John Rothmann Show (AM 810 KGO, San Francisco, CA), The Road to Now, The Joe Madison Show (Sirius XM Radio), Chicago’s Morning Answer (AM 560, Chicago, IL), the Politics! Politics! Politics! podcast with Justin Robert Young, First Light with Michael Toscano (Westwood One Radio/Cumulus Media), Charlotte Talks (90.7 WFAE, Charlotte, NC), The Rod Arquette Show (105.9 KNRS, Salt Lake City, UT), The Leslie Marshall Show, The Bulwark podcast with Charlie Sykes, The Jim Bohannon Show (Westwood One Radio/Cumulus Media), Your Talk Show with Tim Bremel (92.7 WCLO Janesville, WI), The Lars Larson Show (101.1 KXL, Portland, OR), and The Chuck and Julie Show (AM 710 KNUS, Aurora, CO)
• Read a Daily Beast analysis, informed by discussion with Rosenwald, of one of Donald Trump’s preferred defenses—“attacking me is attacking America”
• At the Washington Post, read Rosenwald on Joe Walsh’s chances of beating Donald Trump for the 2020 Republican presidential nomination
• At the Washington Post, read Rosenwald on “media malpractice” and its deleterious effects on American politics
• At the Washington Post, read Rosenwald’s analysis of the July 2019 White House summit for right-wing social media gadflies—a meeting designed to highlight purported bias by tech and social media companies but which in fact, he argues, legitimizes people and organizations who spread misinformation, thrive on dysfunction, and seek to deepen sociopolitical divides in the United States

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