Is conservative talk radio undergoing a major shift? Is the market becoming less friendly to conservative talk radio with its Johnny One Note ragefest partisan tenor? And is something new slowly rising to the surface — more moderate and in some cases more independent talk radio? The Daily Beast’s John Avlon says yes to all three questions and here is why.
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.