The Rise and Fall of Talk Radio

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5. Oh, no you di'int

C'mon. Are you kidding? You tuned into Rush Limbaugh to get real-time news on the impeachment? There was never an excuse to do that. Never. There was cable TV coverage, there were the actual proceedings on C-Span all day long, and there were newspapers. Admit it: you did it for your prurient interest. Because there was nothing to be learned from listening to Limbaugh, ever, about anything.

There was never any legitimacy for talk radio. Honestly, the only time I ever listened to it was back in the early 80s when my newborn daughter used to wake up for feedings and the only thing on the radio at 3 am was Larry King (before he was on TV). It sucked then, and it sucks now. It was always dead to me. And that even goes for the few lame attempts at left-wing talk radio. The reason it never got off the ground is because left-leaning Americans are too smart to fall for that format.

So it's dead? That's what I said last week about Sid Caesar when he died: I didn't know he was still alive.