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  • The right vs the right-on. Right-wing crazies rule talk radio in America. So can a $10m plan to . .

    06/17/2003 8:05:20 PM PDT · by DPB101 · 80 replies · 266+ views
    Independent UK ^ | 6/17/03 | Andrew Gumbel
    Right-wing crazies rule talk radio in America. So can a $10m plan to put liberal shock jocks on air ever work? Andrew Gumbel reports from Los Angeles Wanted: a mould-breaking, iconoclastic American talk-radio host who, unlike just about every other mould-breaking, iconoclastic talk-radio host on the US airwaves, also happens to be left-wing. This host should have the charisma and audience-pulling power to be as popular as the Rush Limbaughs, the Howard Sterns and the other tub-thumping right-wing crazies. Oh, and a sense of humour wouldn't do any harm, either. That's the challenge an increasingly despairing American left is setting...