MSNBC’s Chris Matthews articulates perfectly how many independents and moderates feel about Fox News’ Glenn Beck:
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Chris M: may I say “Ditto”?
FOOTNOTE: Beck has a long radio career and was quite interesting and unpredictable in his older incarnation. But like some of the radio personalities who moved to cable, he fine tuned his presentation so that he was able to saw off and capture a specific demographic which has built a huge audience. Some cable talkers did far more thoughtful — and less financially lucrative — programs in their earlier days when they were doing shows for a more limited radio audience. Today’s Beck is not the same Beck relatives of mine in Connecticut used to tell me about many years ago.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.