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Confrontation Talk: Arguments, Asymmetries, and Power on Talk Radio » Read Now
by Ian Hutchby. 144 pgs.

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Rushed to Judgment: Talk Radio, Persuasion, and American Political Behavior » Read Now
by David C. Barker. 164 pgs.

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Convenient, entertaining, and provocative, talk radio today is unapologetically ideological. Focusing on Rush Limbaugh -- the medium's most influential talk show -- Rushed to Judgment systematically examines the politics of persuasion at play on our nation's radio airwaves and asks a series of...
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Convenient, entertaining, and provocative, talk radio today is unapologetically ideological. Focusing on Rush Limbaugh -- the medium's most influential talk show -- Rushed to Judgment systematically examines the politics of persuasion at play on our nation's radio airwaves and asks a series of important questions. Does listening to talk radio change the way people think about politics, or are listeners' attitudes a function of the self-selecting nature of the audience? Does talk radio enhance understanding of public issues or serve as a breeding ground for misunderstanding? Can talk radio serve as an agent of deliberative democracy, spurring Americans to open, public debate? Or will talk radio only aggravate the divisive partisanship many Americans decry in poll after poll? The time is ripe to evaluate the effects of a medium whose influence has yet to be fully reckoned with.
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Waves of Rancor: Tuning in the Radical Right » Read Now
by Robert L. Hilliard, Michael C. Keith. 332 pgs.

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The airwaves in America are being used by armed militias, conspiracy theorists, survivalists, the religious right, white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and other radical groups to reach millions with their messages of hate and fear. Waves of Rancor examines the origin, nature, and impact of right-wing...
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The airwaves in America are being used by armed militias, conspiracy theorists, survivalists, the religious right, white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and other radical groups to reach millions with their messages of hate and fear. Waves of Rancor examines the origin, nature, and impact of right-wing electronic media, including radio, television, cable, the internet, and even music CDs.
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Broken Contract? Changing Relationships between Americans and Their Government (Chap. 7 "Who's Talking? Who's Listening? The New Politics of Radio Talk Shows") » Read Now
by Stephen C. Craig. 352 pgs.

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New Media and American Politics » Read Now
by Richard Davis, Diana Owen. 308 pgs.

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New Media and American Politics is the first examination of the effect on modern politics of the new media, which include talk radio, tabloid journalism, television talk shows, entertainment media, and computer networks. Davis and Owen discuss the new media's cultural environment, audience, and...
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New Media and American Politics is the first examination of the effect on modern politics of the new media, which include talk radio, tabloid journalism, television talk shows, entertainment media, and computer networks. Davis and Owen discuss the new media's cultural environment, audience, and content, and evaluate its impact on everything from elections to policy making to the old media itself.
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The Political Pundits (Chap. Five "The Chattering Pundits: Talk TV and Radio") » Read Now
by Dan Nimmo, James E. Combs. 216 pgs.

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Nimmo and Combs discuss the key role political analysts play, their methods and strategies, and the potential danger they pose to American democracy--by transforming it into a "punditocracy" which replaces serious citizen debate with discussion guided by show business values. Punditry, Nimmo and...
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Nimmo and Combs discuss the key role political analysts play, their methods and strategies, and the potential danger they pose to American democracy--by transforming it into a "punditocracy" which replaces serious citizen debate with discussion guided by show business values. Punditry, Nimmo and Combs argue, produces symbolic rather than effective healing of political ills, political paternalism rather than political reflection, and, in the end, public disenchantment with politics.
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Populistic Deliberation and Talk Radio, in Journal of Communication » Read Now
by Benjamin I. Page, Jason Tannenbaum. 22 pgs.

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...Populistic Deliberation and Talk Radio by Benjamin I. Page and Jason...public outrage, expressed in calls to radio talk shows and senators offices, and...infuriate the...
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Total Propaganda: From Mass Culture to Popular Culture (Chap. 14 "Radio Talkprop: Using Oldprop for Fuel") » Read Now
by Alex S. Edelstein. 345 pgs.

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...make more possible to address. 10 Talk radio presents its own fictions. Described...demographic and value-oriented publics. Yet talk radio has emulated mass appeals and...
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Talking Radio: An Oral History of American Radio in the Television Age (Chap. 10 "Chatter That Matters") » Read Now
by Michael C. Keith. 244 pgs.

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Includes interviews with such well known personalities as Walter Cronkite, Dick Clark, Steve Allen, Art Linkletter, Paul Harvey, Howard K. Smith, Ed McMahon, Bruce Morrow, as well as more than fifty other individuals who were or continue to be actively involved in radio.
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Political Talk Radio: Actions Speak Louder Than Words, in Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media » Read Now
by C. Richard Hofstetter, Christopher L. Gianos. 15 pgs.

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...Political talk radio: actions speak louder than words...During the past ten years the number of all-talk radio stations or news-and-talk stations has...1991; Page...
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Why Talk Radio Is Conservative, in Public Interest » Read Now
by William G. Mayer. 18 pgs.

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Reclaiming the Air: Rush Limbaugh Created the Model for Conservative Talk Radio. Now a New Network Hopes to Use Comedy-Liberally-to Build an Alternative, in The American Prospect » Read Now
by Paul Starr. 4 pgs.

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Laura Ingraham: A Rising Talk Radio Phenomenon Compares Radio to TV, in The American Enterprise » Read Now
by The American Enterprise. 4 pgs.

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Gurus of Gab: Talk Radio Stars Are Changing America, in Policy Review » Read Now
by David Brudnoy, Raoul Lowery Contreras, Blanquita Cullum, Marlin Maddoux, Jon Matthews, Mike Rosen, Mike Siegel, Errol Smith, Armstrong Williams. 8 pgs.

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Public Argument, Civil Society and What Talk Radio Teaches about Rhetoric, in Argumentation and Advocacy » Read Now
by Thomas Kane. 8 pgs.

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