What to call what Rush Limbaugh does

[Sean Fitzpatrick]

I hate to puncture anyone's cocoon, but most people outside of .EDU-land
call them "Rush Limbaugh", "Glenn Beck", "Mark Levin", etc.  In the spirit
of using a group's soi-disant epithet, like "gay" and
whatever-we-are-calling-Americans-of-Negro-descent-this-month, it would be
only courteous to adopt (at least for Limbaugh) "Excellence in Broadcasting"
or "Talent on Loan from God".

Sean Fitzpatrick
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 -----Original Message-----
From: Charles Doyle [mailto:cdoyle at UGA.EDU]
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: What to call what Rush Limbaugh does

The term "hate radio" is a pretty common currently.

--Charlie
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>What do we call the type of nasty political commentary on radio
>exemplified by Rush Limbaugh?  I thought "shock radio", does that
>have more with sexual content?  On the other hand, NPR says "The
>firing of talk radio host Don Imus is a blow to shock radio. But the
>kind of edgy, often offensive commentary and entertainment Imus
>offered is not likely to disappear from the airwaves."
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