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Talk Radio’s America How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States

Brian Rosenwald

The cocreator of the America’s long road to the Trump presidency began on August 1, 1988, when, desperate for content to save AM radio, top media executives stumbled on a new format that would turn the political world upside down. They little imagined that in the coming years their brainchild would...

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The Bulwark Podcast

The book explored how the dynamic between conservative media and the Republican Party flipped, moving from the party setting the agenda to the entertainment wing driving the political agenda.

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You've been writing about this for some time. And and my sense is that you really do understand how it works and the dynamic they the complicated dynamic between what I've called the entertainment win...

— Episode: Brian Rosenwald: Fox Is Afraid of Its Au...

Episode: Brian Rosenwald: Fox Is Afraid of Its Audience

The book explored how the dynamic between conservative media and the Republican Party flipped, moving from the party setting the agenda to the entertainment wing driving the political agenda.

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You've been writing about this for some time. And and my sense is that you really do understand how it works and the dynamic they the complicated dynamic between what I've called the entertainment wing of the Republican Party and the party.

And that's part of the story that I think people need to understand the way in which power and the entire incentive structure of the Republican Party and the right has shifted toward not just Talk Radio, but to that entire ecosystem that's now formed around Fox News and and Talk Radio.

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