Political Talk Radio: A Stereotype Reconsidered

Abstract

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“…The radio talk shows of 2018–19 inhabit and generate different social and interactional contexts than the radio talk shows of 1978. In the 1970s and 1980s, talk show audiences – and callers in particular – were socially peripheral (Turow 1974, Bierig and Dimmick 1979, Armstrong and Rubin 1989), but today's talk radio listenership is more integrated into general society (Hofstetter et al 1994, Turow et al 1996, Davis and Owen 1998). Moreover, regulatory shifts in the late 1980s and 1990s led to increasingly polarized content appealing to “talk-radio listeners[, who are] fairly united in their strong anti-government sentiments – sentiments that are often conditioned and reinforced by talk-show hosts” (Owen 1996: 134, Davis and Owen 1998).…”