"Hypocrisy Rules the Airwaves"
Newspaper article
By: Joe Saltzman
Date: March 1996
Source: Saltzman, Joe. "Hypocrisy Rules the Airwaves." USA Today 124, March 1996, 77.
About the Author: Joe Saltzman (1939–) is a professor of journalism at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communications. Saltzman was also an award-winning broadcast journalist. His main research interest is the image of journalists in the media and how these images influence the American public.
Introduction
Talk radio shows originated in the 1930s. The shows of the 1930s through the 1950s were very different from those of the early twenty-first century, however. The talk radio shows of the first half of the twentieth century were scripted. The producers and the hosts knew what was going to be said. In the 1960s this began to change. The first true talk radio station was KABC in Los Angeles,...
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