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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
Talk radio doesn't need to be political. -- Big Jim Sullivan
Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan. -- Phil Simms
On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio. -- Lisa Guerrero
American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. -- Shane Smith
The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it. -- Paul Weyrich
Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country. -- Timothy Noah
Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls. -- David Shuster
Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits. -- John Avlon
Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents. -- Alex Pareene
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
Depending on what state you live in, you may only have right-wing talk radio and FOX or CBN with MSNBC three hundred channels down the dial. -- Adam McKay
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
If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes. -- Jackson Katz
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
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
Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major network operating as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and 90 percent of talk radio is dominated by right-wing extremists. -- Bernie Sanders
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
As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites. -- Camille Paglia
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. -- Ivan Reitman
When Limbaugh entered the world of talk radio, the AM dial was essentially moribund. He turned it into a weapon for conservatism, and in the process, led the revolution that has ended in the disintegration of the old media monopoly. -- Ben Shapiro
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
What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base. -- John Avlon
I sort of try to write everything for me. 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. I'm trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they're accessible to everyone. -- Norm MacDonald
What I hear every day on talk radio is America's lack of education - and I don't mean lack of college degrees. I mean lack of the basic art of democracy, the ability to seek the great truths that can come only by synthesizing the small truths possessed by each of us. -- Donella Meadows
At town meetings, you can see the shy folks, the ones who have trouble sounding off in public, leaning against the back wall or bending over their knitting. On talk radio, those people are invisible, but they're there. It's a mistake to think that the blowhards who call in speak for the nation. -- Donella Meadows
American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. I think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan proved it has completely failed to act as an effective fourth estate. And young people didn't sleep through that, as is widely believed; they learned instead not to trust what they were being told. -- Shane Smith
Talk radio doesn't need to be political. -- Big Jim Sullivan
As Al Franken has demonstrated, liberals give lousy talk radio. -- L. Neil Smith
Except for talk radio, liberals pretty much control the culture. -- Bernard Goldberg
Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem. -- Trent Lott
From talk radio to insult radio wasn't really that much of a leap ... -- Leonore Fleischer
Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. -- Jane Fonda
Radio stations play what they believe is in, and they all talk to each other. -- Nikki Sixx
I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat. -- Rachel Maddow
One of my true dreams is to do a sports talk radio show and take calls. -- Joshua Morrow
Now we've got the cables. We've got talk radio. We've got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers. -- John McCain
George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk. -- Steven Wright
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
I mean it's - it is hard to find a voice on talk radio that is not a conservative voice. -- Cokie Roberts
Going from three TV channels to broadcast TV to cable to talk radio; obviously the online explosion has changed things. -- William Kristol
Macro worries are like sports talk radio. Everyone has a good opinion which probably means that none of them are good. -- Seth Klarman
There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life. -- Alan Dershowitz
Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat. -- Jane Fonda
To be sure, conservative radio talk show hosts have a built-in audience unavailable to liberals: People driving cars to some sort of job. -- Ann Coulter
Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town. -- Peter Maxwell Davies
[Conservative talk radio hosts] have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a pro-life, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death penalty Christian. -- Janeane Garofalo
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk. -- Fran Lebowitz
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
I really suggest listening to talk radio. I mean, if you just listen to what the talk hosts are saying, they sound like they are lunatics. -- Noam Chomsky
Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television. -- Michael Medved
Radio has always been pictures of the mind; for me, the essence of radio has always been voices that talk to me and don't patronise me. -- David Rodigan
There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to deceive and enrage. -- Edward Humes
Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Internet is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age. -- Pete du Pont
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
For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up. -- Ira Glass
When a private talk over a bottle of wine is broadcast on the radio, what can it mean but that the world is turning into a concentration camp? -- Milan Kundera
we dance even if there's no radio. we drink at funerals. we talk too much & laugh too loud & live too large, and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't. -- Chris Rose
There is a continuous stream of opinions on governance issues expressed daily, not only in our Parliament and in the print media, but also on talk-radio and social media. -- Anthony Carmona
The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch's empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back. -- Bill Moyers
I'm not shy, exactly, but I am private. I don't like to talk about myself. I had to learn - I was interviewed for print, radio and even TV. -- Nick Harkaway
And one of the things that makes me happiest and proudest is that the talk radio venue, the whole market has expanded. There are all kinds of people doing it. -- Rush Limbaugh
And one of the things that makes me happiest and proudest is that the talk radio venue, the whole market has expanded. There are all kinds of people doing it. -- Rush Limbaugh
Talk radio is an asset to our nation because it encourages strong and healthy debate about public policy, and there is no reason to affect that debate with government legislation. -- Tim Walberg
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
For years, right wing outlets like outlets like Fox News and talk radio have been telling their audience day after day that any information coming from outside of conservative media is not to be trusted. -- Chris Hayes

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