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(9,090 posts)with a little effort from dem party and progressive orgs.
without rw radio to do the unchallenged repetition fox could no longer do what it does.
most like levin, hannity, ingraham are rw radio too and began there, where they get away with a lot worse lying and racism for more hours to larger audiences as they parrot their king limbaugh and each other.
when limbaugh croaks his 600 stations owners are going different directions with different hosts and they're all going to try to outdo each other
and thanks to AI advances it has become very likely that large scale transcription and analysis of talk radio, including listing or advertisers without listening, will force the ad industry, which wants those tens of millions of ears, to democratize political talk radio and push many to other formats where that's not possible
without talk radio all those tv networks become pretty marginalized and useless - they all piggyback or serve to feed 1500 radio stations
it wouldn't take much of a radio boycott effort to start the end of rw radio