TEXT SIZE A A A

Why talk radio is conservative

WILLIAM G. MAYER

ON March 31, 2004, the latest venture in liberal talk radio was officially launched.  A left-wing radio network called Air America began broadcasting a full day’s worth of programming on radio stations in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Portland, Oregon. Its on-air hosts included comedians AI Franken and Janeane Garofalo, rapper Chuck D, and former Walter Mondale speechwriter Marty Kaplan, as well as a sprinkling of more experienced radio performers such as Randi Rhodes and Katherine Lanpher.