“Even today, years after he died, millions of conservatives still love Rush Limbaugh. The bond he built survived his death. Nothing will ever break it. We don’t feel the same way about Bill O’Reilly, Tucker Carlson, or any of the other TV hosts. There was something special about the format, the man — and especially his medium.”
(Scott Pinsker – PJ Media) With all due respect to William F. Buckley and Barry Goldwater, the modern age of American conservatism began with the presidency of Ronald Wilson Reagan, a.k.a. Ronaldus Magnus. From 1980 through the end of the decade, Reaganism and conservatism were one and the same.
But the first age of conservative broadcast media didn’t begin until 1987, with the formal abolishment of the Fairness Doctrine (one of the government’s most absurdly oxymoronic titles). Finally freed of “equal time” inequality, conservative voices suddenly found a home on the airwaves, reaching — and influencing — millions of Americans.
And its flagship format was talk radio.
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