Talk Radio Quotes - Page 2

• So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.

  Paul Weyrich

  Song, Media, Giving

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• The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left. What I object to on the right is the obsessive hatred, the bigotry, and the personal savaging of their opponents, all achieved through an echo chamber of talk radio, the Internet and Rupert Murdoch's media outlets. That kind of well-funded disinformation campaign has no analog on the left.

  David Brock

  Character, Echoes, Media

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• What was the more likely cause of the Oklahoma City bombing: talk radio or Bill Clinton and Janet Renos hands-on management of Waco, the Branch Davidian compound?...Obviously, the answer is talk radio. Specifically Rush Limbaughs hate radio....Frankly, Rush, you have that blood on your hands now and you have had it for 15 years.

  Keith Olbermann

  Hate, Oklahoma City, Blood

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• On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Sports, Running, Morning

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• I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.

  Eric Bogosian

  Halloween, Play, Radio

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• The media didn’t hand it to Obama; after all, the Number One cable news channel, Fox, is right-wing. The Number One newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, also has a right-wing editorial slant (and is owned by the same guy who owns Fox News). The Number One talk radio show is Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity is Number Two, and Glenn Beck is Number Three. When you control all the largest media outlets, it’s time to stop grousing about liberal media bias.

  Paul Begala

  Wall, Media, Hands

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• Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up and turned into television, leaving behind, like dead skin, transistorized talk-radio and nonstop music. . . .

  Vincent Canby

  Life, Maturity, Childhood

  Vincent Canby, Janet Maslin (1999). “The New York Times Guide to the Best 1000 Movies Ever Made”, Three Rivers Press

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• From talk radio to insult radio wasn't really that much of a leap.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Media, Radio, Insult

  Leonore Fleischer (1991). “The Fisher King”, New Amer Library

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• Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.

  Camille Paglia

  Thinking, Long, Fans

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• I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio.

  Norm MacDonald

  Sports, Years, Fans

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• Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.

  Paul Weyrich

  Media, Stories, Radio

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• But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics.

  David Frum

  Book, Thinking, Agency

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• New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challenge traditional codes of conduct. They flout convention, shake up the status quo and sometimes provoke outrage.

  Willow Bay

  Media, Challenges, Television

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• I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starring in a sci-fi series was the prerequisite for the fast-paced demands of talk radio. But, if that's what it takes to succeed, I'm glad I did it all.

  Jerry Doyle

  Wall, Growing Up, Flying

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• Looking back on the event, I find myself thinking there are three approaches to journalism represented here. One is the "cool" approach of traditional journalism, including network broadcasting in which NPR is no exception. One is the "hot" approach of talk radio, which has since expanded to TV sports networks and now Fox TV. The third is the engaged approach of weblogging.

  David "Doc" Searls

  Funny, Sports, Thoughtful

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• I think Ronald Reagan is what happened....The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream....It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk radio, the internet, cable television.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Thinking, Media, Age

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• Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Interne is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.

  Pete du Pont

  Running, Media, Age

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• With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

  Curt Weldon

  New York, Media, Cnn

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• The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.

  Paul Weyrich

  Radio, Conservative, Reason

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• Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

  Phil Simms

  Sports, Fans, Radio

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• The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

  Barney Frank

  Ambition, Reality, Essentials

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• There's been an amazing backlash for the last decade in America: political correctness. In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been. But traditional Hollywood has been much more frightened than it ever was in the '70s about presenting things that could be perceived as politically incorrect.

  Ivan Reitman

  Real, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What unnerves so many liberals about talk radio? Simple: It's the unapologetic nature of the conversation, the unwavering sense of certainty. Where's the nuance? The shades of gray? We all know truth is a fragile butterfly dancing in and out of shadow and light, and these guys act as though truth is a rhino charging across a sunlit veldt.

  James Lileks

  Butterfly, Simple, Rhinos

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• Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.

  Trent Lott

  Running, America, Radio

  "Transcript: Sens. Lott, Feinstein on 'FOX News Sunday'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2007.

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• Thank God I've never been taken to task on a talk-radio show. I won't go on a talk-radio show.

  Guy Maddin

  Taken, Thank God, Tasks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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