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Category Archives: Radio
Ears Wide Shut: Epistemological Populism, Argutainment and Canadian Conservative Talk Radio
From an academic paper in 2011: * For many people, radio has a slightly anachronistic air about it. Perceived as technologically inferior to image-based media and less serious than textual media, radio is often ignored as a marginal and ephemeral … Continue reading
Talk about receiving, giving, and taking in radio interviews: ‘doing modesty’ and ‘making a virtue out of necessity’
Here are excerpts of an academic paper from 2005: * The following excerpt from an interview with the internationally acclaimed Canadian jazz singer, Diana Krall, illustrates how talk of giving and receiving is a site for doing modesty. In this … Continue reading
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A Political Scientist Rides the Talk Radio Circuit
Political scientist James G. Gimpel writes in 1996: * Old geezers sitting around in barber shops listening to cattle market and farm commodity reports, grousing about community problems, and bragging about their latest hunting and fishing expeditions. That’s my talk … Continue reading
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Not the Best: What Rush Limbaugh’s Apology to Sandra Fluke Reveals about Image Restoration Strategies on Commercial Radio
From a 2012 paper: This study analyzes the rhetorical strategies used by Rush Limbaugh to rebuild his public image after he made offensive remarks about law student Sandra Fluke in early 2012. A close reading of Limbaugh’s public statements reveals … Continue reading
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‘When you program from the outside in’
Veteran radio program director David G. Hall writes: I grew up listening to one of the all time great Top 40 stations in the US, KFRC in San Francisco. Man, those guys were perfect, the way they’d segue songs or … Continue reading
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