[Lancey Howard]

Liberal persuasion consists of the highbrow sneer from self-satisfied snobs ladled out for people with a 40 IQ. This is not an ideology that can withstand several hours a day of caller scrutiny where their goofball notions can be shot down by any truck driver with a cell phone.

Given the liberals' propensity for shouting down, with rude interruptions, anybody who seems to be on the verge of making a point, that truck driver with a cell phone would likely never get much of a chance.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Given the liberals' propensity for shouting down, with rude interruptions, anybody who seems to be on the verge of making a point, that truck driver with a cell phone would likely never get much of a chance

. . . and the audience hears it--and changes the station to Rush Limbaugh.

The deadline makes journalism ineluctably superficial; even the most topical book imaginable will have more fact checking, and more perspective, than the reporter on deadline can possibly do. And in contrast to the news report, the book will not be written unless the topic still seems important a month after the event!

So the journalist has a built-in "out" to explain the superficiality of the news--but we-the-people are catching on to the obvious fact that the short-deadline superficiality of journalism runs as cross purposes to serious discussion of serious issues.

Why Broadcast Journalism is Unnecessary and Illegitimate