Paglia: Good politics doesn't mean good talk radio (AAR)

radio-info.com news talk board ^ | 04/08/06 | merriamwebster

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Self-described liberal and feminist professor of culture and media studies Camille Paglia is not a fan of Al Franken, Air America Radio, Terry Gross or NPR. She said the following in an interview with the Madison, WI Capital Times newspaper:

Al Franken: "Good lord! I want to fall asleep. Narcolepsy."

* Air America: It isn't even broadcast in Philadelphia because of low ratings. "It's even slower than NPR. Like a record being played at the wrong speed."

* Terry Gross: "Oh god. Awful. I never listen to her show." Gross broadcasts "Fresh Air" from a studio a couple of blocks from where Paglia teaches. "She is such a PC queen that when I first came on the scene in the early '90s with 'Sexual Personae,' she refused to have me on the show."

Paglia is critical of much of the media but...

... mainly she loves to listen to talk radio, she said, even when the politics is different from hers.

Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity do great radio, Paglia says.

"People on the liberal side, people on my side, have not mastered that medium yet and they need to figure out what it is. They are out of touch with the mass audience, that's for sure. If there is any sign of the problems with my party, it is that."

Paglia is the author of "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson" and teaches at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

PS: I agree AAR's on-air product is too often bad radio (but showing some improvement). Conservative examples of bad radio include (but are not limited to): Mike Gallagher, The O'Reilly Factor, G. Gordon Liddy.

---merriam webster

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link to article:

http://www.madison.com/tct/mad/topstories/index.php?ntid=79336&ntpid=1

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AIR AMERICA RADIO: "Even The Liberals Are Tuning Out!"

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Laura I. calls here Terry Gross-Me-Out...


http://whyy.org/about/pressroom/images/terrygross.jpg

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[rellimpank]

--Paglia was always great when Rush interviewed her--and her columns were excellent , too-

--for a lib she is refreshing , to say the least--

[starfish923]

--Paglia was always great when Rush interviewed her--and her columns were excellent , too- --for a lib she is refreshing , to say the least--

I agree with you.
She can be a hoot.
Her thinking is clear and straight and she has guts.
She also has a pretty good sense of humor.

She does drive me nuts though....because she talks SO fast that much of what she says is lost.

Also, her open lesbianism is offensive. She was "in love" with Jackie O. for years, I heard her once admit.
Blark.