Talkers Magazine, THE magazine for the talk show industry, has a list of talk shows, ranking them by audience share. It’s a given that Rush Limbaugh will be number one…no surprise there. But when it comes to progressive talkers, guess who’s the highest rated — in the Top 10?
Which Air America host is it?
In fact, it isn’t an Air America host.
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.