Ratings

Finally some good news ? According to this article, ratings indicate that audience interest in hardcore right-wing talk shows may be declining. Of all the things I can live without, AM talk radio is near the top of the list. Before retirement, I spent a lot of time in my car, commuting between home and office, between offices, and to out-of-town training and meetings. I usually passed the time listening to right-wing radio programs, particularly Limbaugh's. The exposure was mildly educational in terms of clarifying what modern conservatism was really all about, and I continued to tune in from time to time after I retired.

During the latter years of the G.W. Bush administration I decided that too much talk radio would eventually rot my mind, so I stopped listening other than short (usually under a minute) snips while I was driving to the store. After hearing hundreds of hours over most of a decade, I finally realized the same five or six messages were being constantly repeated. Same tired old diatribes, day after day, with only the names (Clinton, Obama, Daschle, Reid, Pelosi, etc) changing. Frankly, who needs this shit ?